Hi there dear reader, so, I know that in the previous article that I penned, I stated that I'd be showing you how to create buttons that you can interact with (and I know you know that because you're reading
November 15, 2018
Excel
Professionally formulated Excel secrets and magic. The kind of industry knowledge to put junior finance guys out of business.
Dynamic Tension! Creating and Using Dynamic Named Ranges
Auto refresh data in pivot tables
First things first, 10 points to anyone who understands what the title is referring to (that's either Charles Atlas' workout philosophy, or one of core tenants of Bokononism in Kurt Vonnegut's standout Cat's Cradle).
Now, with my obscure reference quota
Importing Excel Datetimes Into Pandas II
Pandas and Excel Pt. 2
What if, like during my data import task a few months back, the dates & times are in separate columns? This gives us a few new issues. Let's import that Excel file!
import pandas as pd
import xlrd
import datetime
I Owe My Job to Mr. Robot
Entering the Dataverse
What's up data gang? If you've been reading along throughout this journey, you'll realize that all of my posts have something in common (other than Excel...smartass), they all assume that you're already working with data...even if it's just
Importing Excel Datetimes Into Pandas
Pandas & Excel, Part 1
Different file formats are different! For all kinds of reasons!
A few months back, I had to import some Excel files into a database. In this process I learned so much about the delightfully unique way Excel stores dates &
Active-X Gonna Give it to Ya
Named Ranges and the Active Xs who Love Them
Hi there dear reader, we've now reached a crossroads in your ability to use Excel as a means of data analysis. If you've been following along, you've learned how to use basically every tool that an Excel analyst would need
Your Invitation to the Pivot Party
Adventures in Excel
I know its been a while, but you'd be surprised how little time an energy you have when you're building a plane while you're flying it...or perhaps, if you've been reading along with this series, you won't.
Before jumping
Slicing Excel: The Way of The Knife
Adventures in Excel
If you've been following along with the posts in this series, and you've been putting some of the scenarios into practice, you've now crossed a crucial juncture in your never ending quest to master the bloated beast that is Excel.
Yes...If(And))
Adventures in Excel
If you've been following along on our proverbial Hogwarts for budding Excel wizardry, you would know that we recently crossed an important Rubicon upon which all Excel, and indeed all computer programming languages are built: The mighty IF statement. Remember,
Getting Iffy With it
Adventures in Excel
If you've been following along, we discussed in the last several posts of this series how, if you're not working in a very "tech forward" organization (like my two compatriots on his site), but you have the same