Tuesday, April 7, 2020

Split Records into Columns or Rows with Power Query


Have you ever received a table of data that is packed into one cell and you needed to split the records into multiple columns or multiple rows. The records from the original table may have commas or line breaks as the delimiter and you think there should be some delimiter function or formula that takes care of this. In this video, I'll show how it can be done using Power Query. There are two examples with both showing how to split a multiline cell into new rows or columns.

For those that don't have Power Query, there is the option of using the text to columns function in Excel and that video is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOfaYdL55AE&t=65s

Thursday, April 2, 2020

Keyword Lookup with Power Query


If you have user that want you make an easier keyword lookup for a table of records, you could tell them to just filter the table or put some lookup formula (like VLOOKUP) together for them. But if they just want some easy to use field where they type up something and click here to get the results, maybe another solution would be to use Power Query. But remember to tell them that this is a case sensitive keyword search!

Tuesday, March 31, 2020

Perform a Two Sample Test in Excel (t-test, equal variances)



When you're trying to compare two population samples to see if the difference is significant or based on random chance, you're likely to perform a t-test for your hypothesis testing. Another thing to think about is to determine if it is a equal or unequal variance t-test. Excel provide an neat feature in the Data Analysis Toolpak to do this easily and I'll cover it, but also show how to use the formulas to manually figure it out.