10 Functions that Help you Crunch Text Strings in Excel

It has often been the case in the course of my assignments that I've had to do quite some data prep in Excel before I could have a clean dataset to crunch. If you also need to do this in Excel, below are 10 functions that I have found indispensable. The datasets I'm going to …

Can I run a linear regression in Excel?

Anyone survived a statistics course at uni without running a linear regression in SPSS? Come forward, please Joke aside, linear regression is such a basic and fundamental forecasting tool that it is being taught across a range of bachelor and master programmes. Yet, all too often, very little is explained how you could use it …

How Can I Quickly Zap the Formulas in a cell range?

When I was working as a Reporting Analyst, I was responsible for generating the monthly EMEA Delivery Management scorecards, whose results would get discussed in a day-long meetings between all senior management members One of the major issues with these scorecards when I inherited them was that there was no consistent way of regularly feeding …