Turn Excel into a lightweight data-science tool for cleaning datasets, standardizing dates, visualizing clusters, and analyzing keywords.

Some members of the Microsoft 365 Insiders program can now try out the combination of Python's data analysis and visualization libraries, Excel's features and the Anaconda Python repository. Image: ...

With this new feature, users can type in Python code in the Excel app. The calculations are then run on a Microsoft cloud server and are returned to the Excel app, with plots and visualizations.

What if the tool you’ve been using for years is far more powerful than you ever imagined? Excel, often dismissed as “just a spreadsheet program,” has transformed into a data analysis powerhouse ...