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Michael Olafusi
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Michael Olafusi is a 9x Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) and a business intelligence consultant. He is the lead consultant and founder of MHS Analytics Inc. in Canada and UrBizEdge Limited. He has been consulting for clients across North America, Europe, and Africa on data analysis, business intelligence, and financial modeling for the past 10 years. Outside of his consulting business, he is a member of Rotary and the Southern Cruisers Riding Club (SCRC) Chapter 373. He is a proud member of the Canadian Red Cross friendly calls volunteer team. He is also a faculty member at WorldQuant University, USA.
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The different ways to bring data into Excel

Excel is the world’s most used data analysis tool and that’s in part due to how easily it allows you to bring in data from all types of sources. You can go online and copy a web page and paste it into Excel, and it won’t complain nor give an error. You can even paste an image into Excel; in fact, it is difficult to find what you can’t copy and paste into Excel. The built-in flexibility of Excel makes it a very beginner-friendly tool.

The following screenshot shows an example of copying a table of populations by country from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_population_(United_Nations) and pasting it into Excel:

Figure 3.1 – Web page of countries and their populations

Figure 3.1 – Web page of countries and their populations

And yes, the desired goal of having a copy of the data in Excel seems to have been achieved here:

Figure 3.2 – The web page pasted into Excel

Figure 3.2 – The web page pasted into Excel

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Michael Olafusi

Michael Olafusi is a 9x Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) and a business intelligence consultant. He is the lead consultant and founder of MHS Analytics Inc. in Canada and UrBizEdge Limited. He has been consulting for clients across North America, Europe, and Africa on data analysis, business intelligence, and financial modeling for the past 10 years. Outside of his consulting business, he is a member of Rotary and the Southern Cruisers Riding Club (SCRC) Chapter 373. He is a proud member of the Canadian Red Cross friendly calls volunteer team. He is also a faculty member at WorldQuant University, USA.
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