<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Excel on Gooseyman's Blog</title><link>https://gooseyman.com/tags/excel/</link><description>Recent content in Excel on Gooseyman's Blog</description><generator>Hugo -- gohugo.io</generator><language>en-us</language><lastBuildDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://gooseyman.com/tags/excel/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Excel to Pandas Cheat Sheet</title><link>https://gooseyman.com/post/excel-to-pandas-cheat-sheet/</link><pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://gooseyman.com/post/excel-to-pandas-cheat-sheet/</guid><description>Translating Common Excel Functions to Python Pandas Methods.
This is my cheat sheet for commonly used Excel functions roughly translated to their Python Pandas equivalents.
Over the last 3 years I have increasingly found myself booting up a Jupyter Notebook to perform data analysis using Python Pandas rather than relaying on Excel. A few factors play into that:
speed when performing data analysis tasks: what one loses in GUI ability one can often make up for in speed of executing extractions, transformations, filters, calculations, etc.</description></item></channel></rss>