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Dear Analyst #50: Walking through a VBA script for trading billions of dollars worth of derivatives with Shawn Wang

This little podcast/newsletter started as a little experiment last year. I never thought I would make it to episode number 50, but here we are! Thank you to the few of you out there who listen/read my ramblings about spreadsheets. I decided to give you all a break and invite my first guest to the […]

Dear Analyst Episode 25: Structuring data challenge (denormalize data) with Get and Transform

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 […]

Revisiting Calculating Average Trends Across Time Periods in Spreadsheets

In this episode, I discuss how to calculate trends over time in Excel for the purposes for forecasting future values. I reference an old post about calculating trends where someone recently left a comment about the counter-intuitiveness on calculating averages of changes in your values. In order to follow along with this episode, I would […]

Dear Analyst Episode 21: Building No-Code Tools and Applications from Spreadsheets

This is my talk from Webflow’s No-Code Conference that took place on November 13th, 2019 in San Francisco. The title of my talk was called Building No-Code Tools and Applications from Spreadsheets. The slides from my presentation are on SlideShare here. Themes from the talk This was my first time talking about my experience with […]