As a continuation of the previous article on Creating Distinct Lists, this post will demonstrate how both macros compliment each other. Both of these processes fit into my data conditioning workflow in Microsoft Excel. Below is the original example data and the resultant merged data. Access Macro from MS Excel If you are currently in…
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Create Distinct Lists (MS Excel)
Have you ever wanted to way to create distinct lists for your data to help you clean and transform values? Normally, you are relegated to copying a column of data, pasting the data in an unused range then running remove duplicates. This process can add up in time spent to accomplish this task for one…
Data Gathering (MS Excel)
Over the years of cleaning, transforming and analyzing data, I have created some useful tools to help expedite tidying and processing. This post will go over a tool designed to gather horizontally tabulated data to transform into a more key:value pair structure. This tool is very similar to R’s tidyr::gather function. For those that don’t…
Data Conditioning Workflow (MS Excel)
In this article I will cover the general workflow I have used in my work experiences to condition data in Microsoft Excel. This post references my previous work in the article on Creating Your Own Ribbon Bar of Tools (MS Excel). General Workflow The following image depicts a generalized workflow for data conditioning in MS…
Creating Your Own Ribbon Bar of Tools (MS Excel)
In this tutorial, we’ll walk-through how to create your own customized ribbon bar. Customized ribbon bars can bring tools you have created in Microsoft VBA to an accessible format and ease of use. They also allow you to create toolboxes of programs that can be easily used by other users, who may not be technically…
Vertical and Horizontal Demerge (MS Excel)
If you have worked in spreadsheets, undoubtedly you will come across data tables where the column and row headers are merged. However stylistic and visually appealing these merged cells are, they pose issues when you want to run a pivot table on the data or create lookup tables to clean and transform the data. If…
