Category Archives: Excel

Baby Names and Pivot Tables

Baby Boom: An Excel Tutorial on Analyzing Large Data Sets is a comprehensive (and free) tutorial looking at analysing public databases of baby names, using Excel: There are professional data analysts out there who tackle “big data” with complex software, … Continue reading

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Managing Data Using Excel …

… is a new book by Mark Gardener, published by Pelagic Publishing.* It is subtitled “Organising, summarising and visualising scientific data”.  The publishers say of the book: Microsoft Excel is a powerful tool that can transform the way you use … Continue reading

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xlSciPy 1.01

The xlSciPy spreadsheet, introduced here, has been updated with many new functions.  The new version, including full open source code (VBA and Python) can be downloaded from: xlSciPy.zip The spreadsheet requires Python to be installed, including NumPy and SciPy.  It … Continue reading

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Time to Lookup

At Daily Dose of Excel Jeff Weir has been looking at alternative methods of applying the VLookup function and ways of getting precise timing of the different formulations. Based on his posts there I have written two Lookup User Defined … Continue reading

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Re-sizing Array Functions

The recent updates to the ConBeamU spreadsheet contained two new functions for entering and re-sizing array functions, and since they will be useful on any spreadsheet containing array functions (which here means almost all of them) I thought they deserved … Continue reading

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