When it comes to working with data in a tabular form, most people reach for a spreadsheet. That’s not a bad choice: Microsoft Excel and similar programs are familiar and loaded with functionality for ...

What if the tools you already use could do more than you ever imagined? Picture this: you’re working on a massive dataset in Excel, trying to make sense of endless rows and columns. It’s slow, ...

In December 2019 my InfoWorld colleague Sharon Machlis wrote an article called “How to merge data in R using R merge, dplyr, or data.table.” Sharon is a whiz at R programming, and analytics in general ...

Have you ever found yourself wrestling with Excel formulas, wishing for a more powerful tool to handle your data? Or maybe you’ve heard the buzz about Python in Excel and wondered if it’s truly the ...

What first interested you in data analysis, Python and pandas? I started my career working in ad tech, where I had access to log-level data from the ads that were being served, and I learned R to ...

Kickstart your learning of Python for data science, as well as programming in general with this introduction to Python course. This beginner-friendly Python course will quickly take you from zero to ...