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Dear Analyst #90: Biostatistics, public health, and the #1 strategy to land a job in data with Tyler Vu

You go to a family gathering and everyone is fawning over you cousin who has a cushy stats job at Harvard. Knowing your cousin, you think to yourself: if my cousin can do it, so can I. Next thing you know, you are a research fellow at Harvard University. Tyler Vu was studying applied math […]

Dear Analyst #81: How to hack award flights on Avianca Airlines with Google Sheets

I love a good deal, especially when it comes to getting a good flight. Ever since I got into churning a few years ago (signing up for credit cards to get rewards), I started booking flights primarily with reward points from these credit cards. I spend more time searching for flights with good point redemptions […]

Dear Analyst #37: Text manipulation functions to extract domain names from email addresses

In Excel or Google Sheets, text manipulation is usually associated with data cleaning, data cleansing, and data transformation. Sometimes your data is “dirty” and needs to be categorized in a different way or you need to “extract” a piece of text from a another piece of text. In this example, we use a combination of […]

How to sync data using Google Apps Script in Google Sheets

In episode 12, I talked about how you can use the IMPORTRANGE() function in Google Sheets to import data form a source Google Sheet to a target Google Sheet. In this episode, I get a little more technical and discuss how you can import data using Google Apps Script. If you want to read the […]

How to import data from one Google Sheet to another

Have you ever wanted to share data from one Google Sheet with another Google Sheet? Maybe you are a freelancer and have multiple clients, and keep all the payment data in one Google Sheet but need to send updates to your clients without sharing all your clients’ data. In this scenario, setting up one individual […]