Excel is a powerhouse at transforming and manipulating data, thanks to a wide variety of Excel formulas and in-app tools. Add ...

In this post, we will show you how to reorder multiple columns in Power Query with Drag & Drop. Often when importing data from various sources, columns may not be in the desired order. Reordering ...

My son's high-pitchedquery broke into my drifting thoughts as I tidied the bathroom. Matthew, 5, sat still in the warm bath, his shiny, bald head slightly bowed. "Mommy, do you know the first question ...

Power Query is a game-changer in terms of the amount of time I save, ensuring imported data is ready for analysis in Excel. If you're new to this tool, it's helpful to know a few commands that can ...

In this post, we will show you how to split Data into Rows using Power Query. While exporting data from other systems or sources, you may encounter situations when the data is stored in a format where ...

Dynamic SQL lets you create a query string based off of user input. SQL Server allows you to create dynamic SQL statements. The statements use a SQL string varchar data type, then you execute the ...

Q. There was a December 2020 article in the JofA about cleaning and joining data using a program called Alteryx, but we don’t have access to this program. Could you explain how to do those tasks using ...

The January 2017 JofA article “Data Mining Your General Ledger With Excel” presents a step-by-step, formula-based approach to extracting general ledger data and then scrubbing them so that they can be ...

Do you want to analyze data that resides in Google BigQuery as part of an R workflow? Thanks to the bigrquery R package, it’s a pretty seamless experience — once you know a couple of small tweaks ...