<![CDATA[Statistical Services Centre Ltd - Blog]]>Tue, 12 May 2026 00:01:20 +0000Weebly<![CDATA[excel for data manipulation]]>Mon, 15 Jul 2019 08:36:58 GMThttps://www.ssc-training.co.uk/blog/excel-for-data-manipulationA selection of data manipulation tasks that I often encounter prior to modeling, that is, prepare the dataset for exporting to a standard statistics package. Picture
Multiple indicators rolled/concatenated into a single column; for example:

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Column A needs splitting into 2 separate columns:
one for the treatment label, one for the day indicator, like so:
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Which is accomplished by using text extractor functions:
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