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Excel for Library Projects

This library guide supports the Minitex workshop series, Excel for Library Projects: Learn by Doing, running Sept-Dec 2024.

Session 3 Description

Project 3: Data Cleaning for Collection Analysis

Let’s learn methods to clean up data so that it’s easier to combine with other data. For this project, we’ll focus on Excel functions for cleaning and re-structuring data. We will then combine data from more than one data source. We’ll continue building on our skills with functions so that they perform more of our work for us, more quickly. We may look at other tools that work well with Excel.

What we'll learn or review: import text file data; Text to Columns; functions: Left(), Right(), Concat(), Clean(), Trim(), If(); basic Power Query, Power Query M functions: Text.Start, Text.End.

Session 3 Introduction

Project 3 Resources

Embedded Video of Session 3

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