Excel Tools for Data Preprocessing and Visualization
How Excel's built-in tools clean messy datasets and turn them into charts that tell a story.
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Microsoft Excel covers a surprising share of everyday data work: data tracking, data science, and data engineering. Remove Duplicates, Sort and Filter, CLEAN, and TRIM handle the preprocessing that keeps analysis accurate.
Once the data is clean, line graphs show change over time, pie charts show parts of a whole, and bar graphs compare categories. The right chart makes the dataset readable at a glance.
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