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Luis Serpa
Mar 05, 2022Copper Contributor
Sorting out data from a column
Hi all, I have a very long column (28281 rows) with dates and times (format: dd/mm/yyyy hh;mm). There are no breaks between days, weeks or months: data is continuous. Next two columns are numbers...
- Mar 05, 2022
Luis Serpa I suggest you look into Power Query as demonstrated in the attached example. In general it's not a good idea to insert empty rows in data sets to hold calculations relating to sub-sets of the data. In your case averages and medians per month.
Luis Serpa
Mar 05, 2022Copper Contributor
Thanks, NikolinoDE. Will try it tomorrow.
Cheers
Luis
Cheers
Luis
Riny_van_Eekelen
Mar 05, 2022Platinum Contributor
Luis Serpa I suggest you look into Power Query as demonstrated in the attached example. In general it's not a good idea to insert empty rows in data sets to hold calculations relating to sub-sets of the data. In your case averages and medians per month.
- Luis SerpaMar 06, 2022Copper Contributor
- Luis SerpaMar 06, 2022Copper ContributorThank you so much, Riny. I'm going to try this method, it seems perfect.