When it comes to working with data in a tabular form, most people reach for a spreadsheet. That’s not a bad choice: Microsoft Excel and similar programs are familiar and loaded with functionality for ...

What if the tools you already use could do more than you ever imagined? Picture this: you’re working on a massive dataset in Excel, trying to make sense of endless rows and columns. It’s slow, ...

Why write SQL queries when you can get an LLM to write the code for you? Query NFL data using querychat, a new chatbot component that works with the Shiny web framework and is compatible with R and ...

Microsoft announced a new extension pack for Visual Studio Code that bundles tools for Python development, assisted by the AI-powered GitHub Copilot and a data wrangler. The new Python Data Science ...

This article is adapted from an edition of our Off the Charts newsletter originally published in October 2021. Off the Charts is a weekly, subscriber-only guide to The Economist’s award-winning data ...