Excel

Excel is a powerful spreadsheet application developed by Microsoft, widely used for data analysis, financial modeling, and various business tasks. Its user-friendly interface allows users to input, organize, and manipulate data efficiently. Excel offers a range of features, including formulas, pivot tables, and charting tools, making it suitable for both simple calculations and complex data analysis. With continuous improvements, such as integration with Power BI and the introduction of custom functions through LAMBDA, Excel remains a vital tool in various industries. Despite its strengths, users must be cautious of potential errors that can arise from its flexibility.

Excel Won’t Go Away

Towards Data Science

Excel is one of the most widely used software packages in the world. It has been around since 1985 and has approximately 750 million users. Microsoft likes to call Excel formulas “the world’s most…

Bye-bye Excel, hello Mito

The Pythoneers

The title of this article may be somewhat pretentious, but nothing is further from the truth. We agree that Excel is and will continue to be the king of spreadsheets and data analysis, but tools like…...

Excel for Data Science?

Towards Data Science

Microsoft Excel is probably the most well-known tool for working with data. Almost everyone knows it, we have our own hate or love relationship to tables, pivots, VBA-scripts and charts. We do our…

Jupyter is the new Excel

Towards Data Science

If you are a trader or you are working in the financial services, Excel is your bread and butter; you can analyse prices and other tick data, evaluate your trading portfolio, calculate VaR, perform…

Data Analysis Using Excel

Towards Data Science

Microsoft Excel is the foremost tool that was used for handling data by all industries before the advent of tools such as Tableau and PowerBI. Even today Excel is widely used for its powerful data…

Introduction to Basic Excel R Toolkit (BERT)

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Excel has been the go-to data analytics tool for businesses for the last three decades. Excel provides built-in tools to conduct statistical analysis, creating budgets, forecasting, dashboards, data…

Supercharged Excel for startup analytics with PowerBI

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Excel seems to be the most hated tool I ever encountered. That’s a shame because if you look past this bad reputation it’s one of the best tools you can have on your belt for analytics. High level…

Ten Essential Excel Functions for Data Analysts

Towards Data Science

Although Python is the dominant tool in the field of data science, Excel is a handy and accessible way to perform analysis or display information to stakeholders. Since Microsoft Excel is widespread…

Explore More About Excel: Analysis Toolpak

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Do you think Excel is an old Microsoft software that can only be used to do very simple analysis? Actually, no, there are lots of more advanced features in Excel that most of people are not aware of…

Microsoft Excel in the era of big data

Towards Data Science

It’s a tool we all already know and use in our everyday life. To build reports, create charts or even to schedule projects, we use Microsoft Excel for anything. But we never really learned to use it…

Python tips for someone transiting from Excel

Towards Data Science

Excel is one of the most frequently used application for data analysis. However, due to its clear limitations (i.e. performance, row and column limits), it may not be sufficient to cope with modern…

Looking for the Best Excel Add-ins

Analytics Vidhya

Excel provides convenient methods, including easy to use functions and intuitive buttons and menus, for performing simple computations. But it’s hard for it alone to accomplish complicated…