Mr. Excel (Bill Jelen) Challenge | Flattening Crazy Data | Podcast 2316
Mr. Excel, Bill Jelen, was presented with a challenge where someone's data was twisted in a weird sort of way and needed to be untwisted; e.g. the data needed to be flattened.
Here is the challenge: • Excel - Challenge: Data Shaping - How Woul...
Bill asked for other solutions than his own. Here's mine. This is one of those examples where it helped me most to bring the data into Power Query and then Transpose it. This may not have been the most efficient solution. However, after the Transpose, I could see a clear bath to the end.
The solution involves:
Transpose
Unpivot
Pivot
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