Someone recently had a huge challenge. He wanted to do analysis on a spreadsheet that was formatted for people to read. It wasn’t set up for data crunching.
When we try to sort or add a pivot table we learn that there are merged cells all throughout the document.
Save as CSV to destroy any and all formatting–merged cells, bold font, colors … everything!
This is a demonstration of what’s possible with Excel’s data validation.
Too often spreadsheets have no layer of protection so, the doors are open wide for crap data to enter our datasets. We’ve got to stop being naughty and close those doors
Here, I show 3 spreadsheets and demonstrate various protective methods:
dependent dropdown lists, protected cells, protected sheets, cells that can only accept integers between 1 and 12.
I don’t go into the how-to detail. The goal here is to show the uninitiated what can be done. There are plenty of how-to tutorials around the internet. Sometimes we just don’t know what’s possible..
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Pleasantly surprising. As a lover of sriracha, I had to try these out if for no other reason than to say that “yes, I’ve tried them.”
There’s some effort that’s been put in here. After a few chips, I have that warm tingle in my mouth. So, I’m not disappointed like I thought I would be. I’m not in love with these, either; but I’d buy them again.
My preference for spicy food is the level of heat that takes you into the capsaicin-induced euphoria while being balanced with flavor. We’re far from that level of heat still, the effort Lay’s made is impressive.
And thank you to Tyler Raineri of Lake Zurich, IL for the idea!
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UPDATE: Mac users have Slicers as of Excel 2016
New in Excel 2013, a wonderful analytical tool: using Slicers with Tables to analyze and/or filter data sets.
Slicers could be used with Pivot Tables and Pivot Charts, and Excel 2013 takes it a step further. EXCELLENT!
Here’s an example of using True in a VLOOKUP because an approximate match is required.
We have a list of dates, and the company uses custom start and end dates to mark monthly periods. Here, “June” is officially 26MAY thru 24JUN.
In order to get 26MAY to show up as June, we use:
=VLOOKUP(A2,$G$2:$H$13,2,TRUE)
IMPORTANT NOTE: I explain the search incorrectly. It’s a common myth that the True starts at the top and goes until it finds the next highest entry. The real explanation is found here:
True conducts a “binary search” as I explain in the other video.
Oz du Soleil samples Habanero Ghost Pepper Cheese from Jim’s Cheese Pantry
This is a fantastic cheese that balances the heat of the peppers, makes excellent use of the ghost peppers inside of a cheese that stands up and matches well with the peppers.
An all-around excellent experience. Add some red wine, and we’ve got LIVE ACTION!
Blogpost associated with this video: http://datascopic.net/generate-data/
Often we need to generate a set of bogus data in order to create examples or test solutions. In this video, I show how to generate fake call center data in order to show an example of a pivot table.
This includes: RAND, RANDBETWEEN, date formatting, Find-Replace
Simple use of Excel Tables
Quick video to show the use of Excel tables, and how a table can be compromised.