Web Scraping in 5 Minutes with Python & Excel

Hey data hackers!  Looking for a rapid way to pull down unstructured data from the Web?  Here’s a 5-minute analytics workout across two simple approaches to how to scrape the same set of real-world web data using either Excel or Python.  All of this is done with 13 lines of Python code or one filter …

Excel Progress Indicator & Check-List Proof of Concept

Recently I was asked by the project management of a client to create a check-list in Excel for an initiative they are heading. While I cannot disclose the exact solution I provided them — due to non-disclosure agreements in effect — I can share the proof of concept I built for the spreadsheet. As a …