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Excel's Custom Data Validation: A Trick You Didn't Know You Needed

If you've used data validation in Excel before, you probably selected the relevant cells, clicked "Data Validation" in the Data tab on the ribbon, and created the rule in the Data Validation dialog ...
Wall Street Journal

Feds Find No Evidence of Tariff Cheating Among Appliance Makers

Federal officials say they have found no evidence of widespread undervaluing of imported appliances after Whirlpool WHR-2.32%decrease; red down pointing triangle last month accused its rivals of ...
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Excel Tip: How to Find the Hidden 3D Map Feature

If you use Excel 40 hours a week (and those are the weeks you are on vacation), welcome to the MrExcel channel. Home to 2,400 free Excel tutorials. Bill "MrExcel" Jelen is the author of 67 books about ...
PC World

This obscure Microsoft Excel tool imports PDF data without mangling it

I don’t use Microsoft Excel all that often, so it remains a bit of a mystery to me. I can enter text and create graphs and that’s basically it. That’s why I’ve set myself a goal to learn one new Excel ...
Newsweek

Cancer Researchers Find a Way Around AI’s Biggest Bottleneck: Data Sharing

For all the hype around artificial intelligence (AI) in health care, the biggest obstacles have often been bureaucratic, not just technical. Patient privacy laws, incompatible data systems and the ...
Reuters

Wall Street left in the dark on US data if shutdown happens

NEW YORK, Sept 29 (Reuters) - Wall Street is preparing for disruption to economic data if a looming U.S. government shutdown goes ahead, which could cause investors to rely more on alternative data or ...
Kansas Reflector

Kansas among nine states to swap voter rolls with Texas in effort to find duplicates, prevent fraud

TOPEKA — Nine states are swapping voter rolls with Texas, and officials say the agreement will “improve the accuracy of voter registration records.” Kansas Secretary of State Scott Schwab’s office ...
CNN

Get ready for more employment data revisions

Large downward revisions to monthly jobs data in recent weeks put a gigantic spotlight on an incredibly typical procedure for economic data. They also spurred something highly atypical, with President ...
The New York Times

Trump Wants Proof That Covid Vaccines Work. It’s Easy to Find.

In a post on Truth Social, the president suggested that the C.D.C. was being “ripped apart” over a question that was answered long ago. By Apoorva Mandavilli and Carl Zimmer In a message on social ...
Ars Technica

LLMs’ “simulated reasoning” abilities are a “brittle mirage,” researchers find

In recent months, the AI industry has started moving toward so-called simulated reasoning models that use a “chain of thought” process to work through tricky problems in multiple logical steps. At the ...
CNN

IRS begins sharing sensitive taxpayer data with immigration authorities to find undocumented migrants

The Internal Revenue Service began sharing sensitive taxpayer data this week with immigration authorities searching for undocumented migrants, according to two sources familiar with the matter. As ...