Excel Best Practices - Data Management - Part 1 of 3 - 2023

Learn how to manage data - input data or raw data properly.
When input is clean, analysis becomes easy.
Simple, effective, and useful. Learn these fundamentals and improve the efficiency of data handling.

Content 🔖
00:00 - Introduction
00:24 - Always use Tables
01:25 - Data Entry best practices
02:07 - What is clean data
02:28 - Clean data checklist
02:37 - Data should grow vertically
03:03 - Don't use formatting instead of meaning
03:42 - Flash fill
04:38 - Power Query
05:32 - Cross to Tabular - Unpivot - Power Query
06:29 - Large slow Excel files problem
07:25 - Power Query Videos
07:43 - Similar data - keep in one table
08:48 - Keep master data separate and updated


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