Quit the data-search struggle by organizing your raw data into a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. Rather than manually scrolling through a list of disorganized records, use Excel's built-in tools to find ...

Microsoft's spreadsheet program can do way more than you might realize. These are the hacks and tricks you need to know.

If you manage data in multiple Excel spreadsheets, you can use the Consolidate Data wizard to merge data from several spreadsheets or workbooks into one master sheet. The Consolidate Data wizard ...

Text, numbers, formulas, and more are entered into cells to create a spreadsheet A spreadsheet stores, organizes, and analyzes data in a structured format. Spreadsheet data refers to the information ...

As a data-science librarian at the University of California, San Diego, Stephanie Labou has seen her share of spreadsheet horror stories. The most haunting was a table of hand-entered GPS coordinates.

Despite spreadsheets being fundamental in the data space, visibility and trust are key challenges. To address this need, Alation Inc. launched Alation Connected Sheets, which incorporates data ...

Modern measurement techniques allow researchers to gather ever more data in less time. In many cases, however, the primary or raw data have to be further analyzed, be it for the verification of a ...

Data-visualization companies are creating buzz with visual representations that let you "see" your data and manipulate it—instead of reading columns of numbers. Big data is a big plus: You can collect ...

Kapow Technologies at the Web 2.0 Expo this week will aim to solve one of the biggest problems facing enterprises as they seek to solve external-internal data chaos by leveraging cloud-based data ...

The Internet of Things is creating serious new security risks. We examine the possibilities and the dangers. Read now Self-service analytics comes in different shapes and sizes, and so data lakes.