Modern business intelligence demands speed, and utilizing AI tools for Excel is the ultimate way to hyper-charge your data workflows this year.

Analysts skilled in tools such as Power BI combined with Copilot, or SQL and Python paired with AI assistance, are commanding premiums as high as 35 to 45 per cent over peers who know only the base ...

While Excel is ubiquitous, I prefer Python for my data analysis. Spreadsheets are great for formatting data, but it's Python that's allowed me to build my own super calculator out of regular Python ...

Cleaning massive, disorganized spreadsheets or parsing through thousands of lines of raw server logs is annoying. You can do it yourself, make a program to do it, or you can just give it to Claude and ...

Data work in 2026 asks for more than chart building. Professionals are expected to clean data, query databases, explain trends, and present findings clearly across business, finance, product, and ...

In addition to rolling out patches to address two zero-days affecting SQL Server and .NET, Microsoft introduced Common Log File System hardening with signature verification. The team at Readiness each ...

Excel to SQLite simplifies the process of importing Excel data into SQLite databases. It provides automatic schema detection, data transformations, validation rules, and includes an intelligent ...

Every data engineering team right now is being asked the same question: "How do we build a chatbot that talks to our data?" The prototypes are deceptively simple. A developer connects GPT-5.1 to a ...

It’s easy to get caught up in technology wars—Python versus Java versus NextBigLanguage—but the hardest part of AI isn’t the tools, it’s the people. Domain knowledge, skills, and adoption matter more ...

In today’s data-rich environment, business are always looking for a way to capitalize on available data for new insights and increased efficiencies. Given the escalating volumes of data and the ...

Spreadsheet apps like Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets are used worldwide to organize and analyze data, but getting the right information into them isn’t always straightforward. Businesses often need ...

Why write SQL queries when you can get an LLM to write the code for you? Query NFL data using querychat, a new chatbot component that works with the Shiny web framework and is compatible with R and ...