Mandatory Trainings: Are we doing them? [Data Analysis Challenge – 002]

This week, let’s try something new. I have a spreadsheet challenge for you. Solve it, post your answers by leaving a comment. No cheating or no AI help on this one. Mandatory Training at Awesome Chocolates You are the head of L&D department at Awesome Chocolates. As part of employee induction, every new hire at […]

Who is my boss’s boss? [Data Analytics Challenge – 001]

Who is my boss's boss?

Let’s try something different. I will share a data analytics challenge here. Post your solutions in the comments. Our first challenge involves Employee Data Analysis. You can score maximum of 35 points. Imagine you have employee data in this “staff” table (in Excel / Power BI / SQL / Python or whatever tool you fancy) […]

Who went to both USA & UK? [Excel Challenge]

Find employees visiting both countries

How about a fun Excel challenge? I have data in below format in the table named trips I want to know which employees visited both USA & UK? How would you solve this problem? Post your solutions in the comments. Need sample data & my solution? Click here to download the file. Want more challenges […]

Lookup last non blank value – Excel Challenge

Lookup last non-blank value in Excel

I have a fun Excel lookup challenge for you. You have data as shown below and want to find the last non blank value for a given account number. For example, for acct number 2015, the answer would be Freedom. How would you solve this? Refer to this workbook for 3 possible answers. Just move […]

There are 20 Easter Eggs in this Workbook

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Welcome to annual Easter Egg hunt at Chandoo.org. This year I have a feast for you. I hid 20 Easter Eggs in this workbook. Go ahead and find them. Share your solutions, clues or struggles in the comments box.

Happy hunting.