Tonight, I’m preparing to teach a workshop and need examples to show the students. Here’s your behind-the-scenes peek into using Excel to generate data to build useful examples. WHY GENERATE BOGUS DATA (AKA DUMMY DATA) SETS? Knowing how to generate random...
This video demonstrates one use of data generator results as follow-up to an earlier blog entry, Taming Dataville. In the video below, you will see: Use of dummy data While waiting for someone to create a Master List, I moved ahead by using random fish species where...
So, a client delivers a lot of data to me. They need it scrubbed or, reorganized or, an application built around their to automate tasks … or some combination of the three. Guess what? Most projects involve something that I don’t know how to do (yet). And...