This episode is based on a video and Tweet posted by Mr. Excel (Bill Jelen). Bill discusses an Excel challenge someone emailed him about regarding how to “transform” a badly structured table of data into a structure that makes it easy to do PivotTables and other downstream analysis. Interestingly, I received a ticket from a […]
If you are by your computer, you may want to open this Google Sheet to understand the example discussed in this episode. I walk through a rather long formula involving the FREQUENCY(), COLUMN(), MAX(), and the ARRAYFORMULA() functions in Google Sheets. Here’s the full formula below to calculate win streaks in the Google Sheet: =ARRAYFORMULA(MAX(FREQUENCY(IF(B2:P2=”W”,COLUMN(B2:P2)),IF(B2:P2=”L”,COLUMN(B2:P2))))) […]
If you want to count the number of cells with blank values in them, you may think it’s as simple as using the COUNTBLANK() formula. Usually you do this if you want to know how much data is missing in your data set. Say you have a list of 10 students, and if a student […]
Excel for the Real World I studentVery good class, the teacher explained everything with simple to follow instructions, you can confidently operate Excel after this course!
