{
  "id": 4115088,
  "title": "Getting Started with Excel for Data Analytics: From Basics to Data Cleaning",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/29/getting-started-with-excel-for-data-analytics-from-basics-to-data",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-08-29T05:26:14.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/sam_manox/getting-started-with-excel-for-data-analytics-from-basics-to-data-cleaning-1md6"
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  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Introduction Microsoft Excel is the most popular tool for data work and analysis. Its user-friendly environment makes it easy to understand, organize, clean, and explore data. For a data analyst or scientist, knowing how to work with Excel goes beyond entering information into cells. Excel can be used to inspect datasets, identify errors, standardize values, filter records, sort information,…",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}