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Extending Excel with Python and R

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Published in Apr 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781804610695
Pages 344 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Steven Sanderson Steven Sanderson
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Steven Sanderson, MPH, is an applications manager for the patient accounts department at Stony Brook Medicine. He received his bachelor's degree in economics and his master's in public health from Stony Brook University. He has worked in healthcare in some capacity for just shy of 20 years. He is the author and maintainer of the healthyverse set of R packages. He likes to read material related to social and labor economics and has recently turned his efforts back to his guitar with the hope that his kids will follow suit as a hobby they can enjoy together.
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David Kun David Kun
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David Kun is a mathematician and actuary who has always worked in the gray zone between quantitative teams and ICT, aiming to build a bridge. He is a co-founder and director of Functional Analytics and the creator of the ownR Infinity platform. As a data scientist, he also uses ownR for his daily work. His projects include time series analysis for demand forecasting, computer vision for design automation, and visualization.
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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface 1. Part 1:The Basics – Reading and Writing Excel Files from R and Python
2. Chapter 1: Reading Excel Spreadsheets 3. Chapter 2: Writing Excel Spreadsheets 4. Chapter 3: Executing VBA Code from R and Python 5. Chapter 4: Automating Further – Task Scheduling and Email 6. Part 2: Making It Pretty – Formatting, Graphs, and More
7. Chapter 5: Formatting Your Excel Sheet 8. Chapter 6: Inserting ggplot2/matplotlib Graphs 9. Chapter 7: Pivot Tables and Summary Tables 10. Part 3: EDA, Statistical Analysis, and Time Series Analysis
11. Chapter 8: Exploratory Data Analysis with R and Python 12. Chapter 9: Statistical Analysis: Linear and Logistic Regression 13. Chapter 10: Time Series Analysis: Statistics, Plots, and Forecasting 14. Part 4: The Other Way Around – Calling R and Python from Excel
15. Chapter 11: Calling R/Python Locally from Excel Directly or via an API 16. Part 5: Data Analysis and Visualization with R and Python for Excel Data – A Case Study
17. Chapter 12: Data Analysis and Visualization with R and Python in Excel – A Case Study 18. Index 19. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Steven Sanderson, MPH, is an applications manager for the patient accounts department at Stony Brook Medicine. He received his bachelor's degree in economics and his master's in public health from Stony Brook University. He has worked in healthcare in some capacity for just shy of 20 years. He is the author and maintainer of the healthyverse set of R packages. He likes to read material related to social and labor economics and has recently turned his efforts back to his guitar with the hope that his kids will follow suit as a hobby they can enjoy together.
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David Kun is a mathematician and actuary who has always worked in the gray zone between quantitative teams and ICT, aiming to build a bridge. He is a co-founder and director of Functional Analytics and the creator of the ownR Infinity platform. As a data scientist, he also uses ownR for his daily work. His projects include time series analysis for demand forecasting, computer vision for design automation, and visualization.
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