Why Python now?The moment when the code you have been writing in VBA for over 20 years stops being useful arrives sooner than you think. What lies beyond that—frustration, or a new perspective? I am ...

You might think of Microsoft Excel as just rows and columns, a place for basic calculations and simple charts. And while it certainly excels (no pun intended) at those fundamental tasks, the recent ...

What if you could turn Excel into a powerhouse for advanced data analysis and automation in just a few clicks? Imagine effortlessly cleaning messy datasets, running complex calculations, or generating ...

Have you ever experienced opening a CSV by double-clicking it, only to find that 007 became 7, 4901234567890 became 4.90123E+12, or product codes turned into dates? The tricky part is that it has ...

What if the tools you already use could do more than you ever imagined? Picture this: you’re working on a massive dataset in Excel, trying to make sense of endless rows and columns. It’s slow, ...

If you’re decent in Python (or aspire to be) but don’t have the chops for advanced data work in Excel, Microsoft now offers the kind of peanut butter-and-chocolate combination that you may consider a ...

The two worlds of Excel and Python are colliding thanks to Microsoft’s new integration to boost data analysis and visualizations. The two worlds of Excel and Python are colliding thanks to Microsoft’s ...

Microsoft will retire Power Query support for Python in Excel for the web on October 16, 2026, potentially breaking existing workflows.

Microsoft is considering adding Python as one of the official Excel scripting languages, according to a topic on Excel's feedback hub opened last month. Since it was opened, the topic has become the ...

The world of data science is awash in open source: PyTorch, TensorFlow, Python, R, and much more. But the most widely used tool in data science isn’t open source, and it’s usually not even considered ...