Excel Data Cleansing Straight to the Point

Excel Data Cleansing Straight to the Point
Authors
Soleil, Oz du
Publisher
Holy Macro! Books
Tags
excel;excel on fire; power query; match function; text to columns;
Date
2019-07-23T00:00:00+00:00
Size
10.44 MB
Lang
en
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This Straight to the Point guide provides an introduction to data cleansing, which also goes by names such as data munging and data wrangling. Whatever the name, it basically means doing what needs to be done to make data useful and trustworthy. Data cleansing can include the following tasks:Deleting unnecessary headersDeleting summary rowsFilling in gapsFlattening a reportMerging and appending data from multiple sourcesPulling data from source X to complete data in source YSplitting names from addressesIdentifying and deleting duplicate recordsConverting units of measurement in multiple sources