How-To Geek on MSN

This hidden Excel tool can quickly clean up your data automatically

Use Power Query's M language to quickly fix names, remove hidden characters, extract numbers, and merge columns.
How-To Geek on MSN

Python in Excel isn't just for programmers—4 useful things you can do with it right now

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

Microsoft Researchers Figure Out How to Store Data Inside Glass Using Lasers

Most of the world's information is stored digitally right now. Every year, we generate more data than we did the year before. Now, with AI in the picture, a technology that relies on a whole lot of ...
ascopubs.org

Development and Assessment of a Pipeline for Extracting Structured Data From Free-Text Medical Reports Using a Large Language Model

Medical free texts such as pathology reports contain valuable clinical data but are challenging to structure at scale. Traditional natural language processing approaches require extensive annotated ...
CNET

Starlink Is Using Your Personal Data to Train AI. Here’s How to Opt Out

Starlink says it may also share personal data with partners to help it "develop AI-enabled tools that improve your customer experience.” Joe Supan is a senior writer for CNET covering home technology, ...
MIT Technology Review

Using unstructured data to fuel enterprise AI success

Organizations have a wealth of unstructured data that most AI models can’t yet read. Preparing and contextualizing this data is essential for moving from AI experiments to measurable results. In ...
9to5Mac

New study shows how AI could unlock deeper heart data from the Apple Watch’s optical sensor

A few days ago, we looked into how Apple could one day use brain wave sensors in AirPods to measure sleep quality and even detect seizures. Now, a new paper shows how the company is exploring deeper ...
JournalofAccountancy

Using TEXTSPLIT to dissect Excel text strings

Q. I have used the Excel functions LEFT, MID, and RIGHT to dissect cells. However, I have some spreadsheets where each piece of information is a different length and uses different delimiters. Is ...
JournalofAccountancy

Using Excel’s TEXTBEFORE AND TEXTAFTER functions to easily tame messy data

Q. How do the TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions in Excel work? A. Excel’s TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions allow users to quickly split up text in ways that used to require combinations of ...
The Washington Post

How to use ChatGPT without giving up your data

If you like using chatbots but don’t love the companies harnessing your data to “train” their artificial intelligence or to mine records of your conversations, there’s a hack for that. Use the same ...
The New York Times

Homeland Security Tells Watchdog It Hasn’t Kept Text Message Data Since April

The agency’s response to public records requests indicated potential violations of federal records laws, experts said. By Minho Kim Reporting from Washington The Department of Homeland Security ...