One typical application for Excel is to find information in a list of data. The simplest way to do this is filtering the data so that Excel does the work of finding the pertinent information for you ...

What if you could take the chaos of a sprawling Excel spreadsheet and distill it into exactly the information you need—no fluff, no manual sifting, just precision? For anyone who’s ever wrestled with ...

Inserting a pivot table in a sheet in Excel 2013. Image: Screenshot by Susan Harkins/TechRepublic When is the last time you opened Microsoft Excel to do some data science? If it's been a while, you're ...

The Pareto Principle, also known as the 80-20 rule, is a powerful concept that can transform your approach to data analysis. This principle states that roughly 80% of effects come from 20% of causes.

Simplify your data transformation by skipping complex parsing expressions and instead using Flash Fill and Power Query in Microsoft Excel. Image: IB Photography/Adobe Stock If you work with imported ...