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  "id": 4286154,
  "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-4286154",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-08-29T21:14:53.000Z",
  "source": {
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    "url": "https://dev.to/maditech/getting-started-with-excel-for-data-analytics-from-basics-to-data-cleaning-4p80"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "1. Introduction Excel is much more than a spreadsheet for entering numbers. It can be used as a data-analysis tool that helps analysts inspect, validate, filter, summarize, and prepare raw data before deeper analysis begins. In typical analytics, the quality of the final work depends heavily on the quality of the data used; therefore, data cleaning is not an optional step—it is the foundation of…",
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        "title": "Getting Started with Excel for Data Analytics: From Basics to Data Cleaning",
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        "published": "2026-08-29T05:26:14.000Z"
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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."
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