Questions tagged [excel]
Excel is a spreadsheet based software, for numerical input, developed by Microsoft and part of the broader set of the Microsoft Office Suite.
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Monte Carlo iteration in excel
I'm trying to use Excel to determine the outcomes of hockey games. In the game that I'm simulating, I have each team has a goals for and standard deviation which I call in this function: (NORM.INV(...
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How to train machine learning model with many data
I'm trying to learn machine learning. I understood how to train a machine learning model when there are only two labels. But I can't understand how if there are more than two labels, like how to make ...
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Separating data that overlaps between rows in a csv file using Pandas library
So, I downloaded this Ecommerce dataset from kaggle here: https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/kolawale/focusing-on-mobile-app-or-website After converting it to a csv file, there seems to be an issue. The ...
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Beginner Question: How to automate desk allocation
I am not sure whether this is the right place, but I have my first project and don't know where to begin. I want to get into data science/ practical programming and a family friend gave me my first ...
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AI tools/LLM models to analyze excel data
I have a bunch of excel files containing information of employee attendance. I want to use NLP-based search to ask questions like: Which employee has taken most leaves?; What dates witness a high ...
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Python 3.11 | How to have Python collect the values of a certain cell in a readable Excel file IF the cell's row has a certain value in another column
I'm quite new to this data-collecting bit of coding, just trying to make a process a bit more automated. Currently, I have this excel sheet that python can read just fine, however, I am trying to find ...
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Converting numeric column to range
I have this data below. I want to convert temperature column into range of data like class interval and get the sum of sales in that range. How can I achieve that?
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Network Visualisation (Python/Excel)
I have a large data set similar to that in the screenshot below: and I want to visualise the whole data set like the diagram below (made with a lot of effort in PowerPoint!) Is there any way to do ...
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Giving each person in order their top choice which is still available in Google Sheets
The problem I want to solve is my residential building's garage choices. There will be a random distribution of parking spaces. I thought that it would be better if each person writes down which ...
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How to interpret standard deviation calculated by excel
I have some percentage values in my excel spreadsheet like: When i use the STDEV function to calculate the standard deviation with these values, i get ...
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Markov Process and transition matrix
I would like to find some good courses but also a quick response on how to model transition matrix given the states. Imagine having 4 states and the following array [1,2,4,1,3,4,2 etc etc]. What ...
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How to find duplicate rows in a column then find out if two cells in another column sum up to a third cell in an Excel tab in Python?
I need to find all duplicate rows (string values) in "Name" column and then find out if two numerical values in "Amount" column sum up to a third value also in the "Amount&...
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Deleting a Column in a csv or Excel file using Pandas
I am trying to delete a column from my csv file (column 'A' called "Film Number") but have tried numerous variations of code and while it deletes the column in the dataFrame it doesn't do so ...
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How to make the values in different columns in the correct order based on another data frame (mapping) in Python Pandas
I am pretty new to Python and Pandas and I struggle with combining a messy dataframe from excel with a mapping. I have tried to find some solutions on the Internet, however with no success. My first ...
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How can I extract an optimized matrix of correlations from a larger data set?
Consider an Excel sheet containing a matrix of correlations between individual stocks and the combined portfolio as a whole: How can I extract an optimized matrix such that most stocks have a low ...