All Products

Best Sellers

New Releases

Books

Videos

Audiobooks

Free Learning

Extending Excel with Python and R

You're reading from Extending Excel with Python and R

Product type Book

Published in Apr 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781804610695

Pages 344 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Concepts

Authors (2):

Steven Sanderson

David Kun

View More author details

Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface

Part 1:The Basics – Reading and Writing Excel Files from R and Python

Chapter 1: Reading Excel Spreadsheets

Chapter 2: Writing Excel Spreadsheets

Chapter 3: Executing VBA Code from R and Python

Chapter 4: Automating Further – Task Scheduling and Email

Part 2: Making It Pretty – Formatting, Graphs, and More

Chapter 5: Formatting Your Excel Sheet

Chapter 6: Inserting ggplot2/matplotlib Graphs

Chapter 7: Pivot Tables and Summary Tables

Part 3: EDA, Statistical Analysis, and Time Series Analysis

Chapter 8: Exploratory Data Analysis with R and Python

Chapter 9: Statistical Analysis: Linear and Logistic Regression

Chapter 10: Time Series Analysis: Statistics, Plots, and Forecasting

Part 4: The Other Way Around – Calling R and Python from Excel

Chapter 11: Calling R/Python Locally from Excel Directly or via an API

Part 5: Data Analysis and Visualization with R and Python for Excel Data – A Case Study

Chapter 12: Data Analysis and Visualization with R and Python in Excel – A Case Study

Index

Why subscribe?

Other Books You May Enjoy

An introduction to APIs

You can think of APIs as a set of rules that will allow one piece of software to interact with another. A quick example of the usage of an API would be the weather app on a smartphone connecting with the weather system to get the current weather or a forecast of the weather.

An easy way to think of an API, besides a mechanism for different systems to communicate, is to think of a contract. The documentation of an API will specify how a system can connect with and talk with the system, what it is allowed to do, and how often.

Systems that maintain an API will often act as a sort of client and server type arrangement. A REST API is one of the most popular types of API today. REST stands for representational state transfer. The major pro of this type of API is that it is stateless. Statelessness means that servers do not save client data between requests. The requests that are sent to the server will remind you of a URL. A generic REST API call might look...

The rest of the chapter is locked

Register for a free Packt account to unlock a world of extra content!

A free Packt account unlocks extra newsletters, articles, discounted offers, and much more. Start advancing your knowledge today.

Unlock this book and the full library FREE for 7 days

Get unlimited access to 7000+ expert-authored eBooks and videos courses covering every tech area you can think of

Start free trial

Renews at $15.99/month. Cancel anytime}

Authors (2)

Steven Sanderson

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.

Read more

See other products by Steven Sanderson

David Kun

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.

See other products by David Kun

Personalised recommendations for you

Based on your interests and search pattern

Ever wonder why speech recognition systems don't understand the Scottish accent, or what would happen if an astronaut only ate mac 'n' cheese, or other spurious reflections you'd have at a bar? We did, then collated those deliberations into absurd research articles with fake figures and methodologies inspired by even more fictionally absurd studies.

Aug 2023 7 hours 40 minutes

Generative AI with LangChain

Generative AI with LangChain

This book is a comprehensive introduction to LLMs and LangChain, demystifying the basic mechanics of LangChain, its functionalities, and the myriad of applications it can be integrated into.

Dec 2023 12 hours 0 minutes

Generative AI with LangChain

Generative AI with LangChain

This book is a comprehensive introduction to LLMs and LangChain, demystifying the basic mechanics of LangChain, its functionalities, and the myriad of applications it can be integrated into.

Dec 2023 12 hours 0 minutes

Generative AI with LangChain

Generative AI with LangChain

This book is a comprehensive introduction to LLMs and LangChain, demystifying the basic mechanics of LangChain, its functionalities, and the myriad of applications it can be integrated into.

Dec 2023 12 hours 0 minutes

Generative AI with LangChain

Generative AI with LangChain

This book is a comprehensive introduction to LLMs and LangChain, demystifying the basic mechanics of LangChain, its functionalities, and the myriad of applications it can be integrated into.

Dec 2023 12 hours 0 minutes

Mastering Tableau 2023

Mastering Tableau 2023

This book is a comprehensive resource to mastering your Tableau skills and becoming a BI expert. As you progress, you will learn how to build advanced dashboards and improve your storytelling to derive key business insight, as well as make you well-versed with advanced functionalities of Tableau in the business intelligence domain.

Aug 2023 22 hours 48 minutes

Building AI Applications with ChatGPT APIs

Building AI Applications with ChatGPT APIs

This guide covers all ChatGPT API features for effortless creation of robust AI powered apps. With its help, you’ll be able to leverage ChatGPT’s cutting-edge NLP models to take your app development skills to the next level. You’ll also work on ten exciting projects that will give you the practical know-how that you can apply to your existing applications.

Sep 2023 8 hours 36 minutes

Building AI Applications with ChatGPT APIs

Building AI Applications with ChatGPT APIs

This guide covers all ChatGPT API features for effortless creation of robust AI powered apps. With its help, you’ll be able to leverage ChatGPT’s cutting-edge NLP models to take your app development skills to the next level. You’ll also work on ten exciting projects that will give you the practical know-how that you can apply to your existing applications.

Sep 2023 8 hours 36 minutes

Data Engineering with AWS

Data Engineering with AWS

Embark on a journey to master data engineering pipelines on AWS! Our book offers a hands-on experience of AWS services for ingesting, transforming, and consuming data. Whether you're an absolute beginner or someone with basic data engineering experience, this guide is an indispensable resource.

Oct 2023 21 hours 12 minutes

Modern Data Architecture on AWS

Modern Data Architecture on AWS

Every organization wants an agile, performant, and cost-effective data platform that meets all their current and future business needs. Purpose-built AWS analytics services and their features play a big part in building such a modern data platform. This book brings to you all the design and architectural patterns that’ll help you achieve this goal.

Aug 2023 14 hours 0 minutes

Practical Guide to Applied Conformal Prediction in Python

Practical Guide to Applied Conformal Prediction in Python

Discover the power of Conformal Prediction with the "Practical Guide to Applied Conformal Prediction in Python." Master the latest techniques to quantify uncertainty in machine learning and computer vision models, and seamlessly apply them to your industry applications.

Dec 2023 8 hours 0 minutes

TinyML Cookbook

TinyML Cookbook

With over 70 project-based recipes, the TinyML Cookbook is a practical guide that will help you to get the most out of your microcontrollers. It provides a comprehensive understanding of the theoretical foundations while giving you hands-on experience training ML models for deployment on Arduino Nano 33 BLE Sense, Raspberry Pi Pico, and SparkFun RedBoard Artemis Nano microcontrollers.

Nov 2023 22 hours 8 minutes