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How to export YouTube video comments to Excel file? – Free template + Power Query case study

Published on May 28, 2020 in Power Query
How to export YouTube video comments to Excel file? – Free template + Power Query case study

This week, I am running a contest on YouTube. One of the criteria for picking winners is that they must comment on my video. So far, I got more than 200 comments. To make my job easier, I want to export the video comments to an Excel file. Turns out this is easily done once you have a Google developer API key. In this article, let me explain the process for extracting Youtube video comments to Excel table.

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Mutual Fund Portfolio Tracker using MS Excel

Published on Jul 6, 2018 in Learn Excel, personal finance, Power Query, technology
Mutual Fund Portfolio Tracker using MS Excel

Would you like to spend next 5 minutes learning how to create an mutual fund tracker excel sheet?

Make a live, updatable mutual fund portfolio tracker for Indian markets to keep track of your investments using this example.

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How your country did in Commonwealth Games – Power BI Viz and Tutorial

Published on Apr 17, 2018 in Power BI, Power Pivot, Power Query
How your country did in Commonwealth Games – Power BI Viz and Tutorial

Commonwealth games 2018 have ended in the weekend. Let’s take a look at the games data thru Power BI to understand how various countries performed.

Here is my viz online or you can see a snapshot above.

Looks good, isn’t it? Well, read on to know how it is put together.

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Visualizing Commonwealth games performance – Interactive chart

Published on Apr 13, 2018 in Charts and Graphs, Power Query
Visualizing Commonwealth games performance – Interactive chart

The 2018 edition of Commonwealth games are on for a week now. Both of my homes – India and New Zealand have been doing so well. Naturally, I wanted to gather games data and make something fun and creative from it. Here is my attempt to amuse you on this Friday.

Looks interesting? Want to know how to make something like this on your own? Then read on…

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How windy is Wellington? – Using Power Query to gather wind data from web

Published on Feb 22, 2018 in Power BI, Power Query
How windy is Wellington? – Using Power Query to gather wind data from web

Let’s take a whirlwind trip to coolest little capital – Wellington. It is a windy place, so hold on to your hats and spreadsheets.

Almost everyone who spends more than 2 days in Wellington would agree that it is a windy place. But how windy is Welly? In this two part series, we will use Power Query, Excel charts and coffee to answer that question.

But, first let’s start with a joke.

What happens when you throw a boomerang in Frank Kitts Park?

You will have to buy another one, coz you are not getting that one back.

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How to import web data to Excel using Power Query

Published on Aug 21, 2015 in Power Query
How to import web data to Excel using Power Query

Power Query offers many ways to get data to Excel. One of them is to Web Data import feature. Let’s understand how this works by importing world stock exchange closing data from Google Finance website.

[Related: Introduction to Power Query]

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Finding Nearby Zipcodes using Excel Formulas

Published on Mar 18, 2013 in Excel Howtos
Finding Nearby Zipcodes using Excel Formulas

Recently, I had a peculiar problem. I have a list of zip codes and I wanted to find out nearest zip codes for each of them.

Now, If I wanted to find out near by zip codes for one area, I could go and search in Google. But, how to do it for dozens of them?

Today, lets understand how you can use Excel (that’s right) to do this automatically. We will be using Excel 2013 for this.

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Excel Links – Congratulations Team India Edition

Published on Apr 4, 2011 in excel links
Excel Links – Congratulations Team India Edition

Wow, what a weekend it has been. Indian cricket team has won Cricket world cup 2011. It has been a highly entertaining tournament and the finals were just incredible.

Congratulations to Team India for winning Cricket World-cup 2011.

I am tempted to make a dashboard of sorts to show the journey of Team India in this world cup. But I could not get much time to work on anything. I will post something this week to celebrate the victory.

Read the rest of this post to get 5 recommended Excel resources to learn new things.

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Get Stock Quotes using Excel Macros [and a Crash Course in VBA]

Published on Jun 2, 2010 in Learn Excel, VBA Macros
Get Stock Quotes using Excel Macros [and a Crash Course in VBA]

Have you ever wanted to fetch live stock quotes from excel? In this post we will learn about how to get stock quotes for specified symbols using macros. We use Yahoo! Finance API to fetch the stock quotes and other information related to a company using excel macros. Along the way, we will also learn various interesting things about Excel VBA. Think of this post as a crash course in VBA.

This is a guest post by Daniel Ferry.

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Track Your Mutual Fund Portfolio using Excel [India Only]

Published on Dec 28, 2009 in excel apps, personal finance
Track Your Mutual Fund Portfolio using Excel [India Only]

Excel is very good for keeping track of your investments. Due to its grid nature, you can easily create a table of all the mutual fund holdings and monitor the latest NAVs (Net Asset Values) to see how your investments are doing. A while back we have posted a file on tracking mutual funds using excel. Today we are going to release an upgrade for that file.

Read the rest of this post to understand how this template works and download the free template.

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Write Your Own Twitter Client using Microsoft Excel

Published on Feb 5, 2009 in excel apps, Featured, Learn Excel
Write Your Own Twitter Client using Microsoft Excel

Learn how you can write your own twitter client using Excel. All it takes is excel, internet connection and 5 minutes of spare time.

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Excel Links of the Week – What the heck happened to photographic fridays edition

Published on Oct 27, 2008 in excel links
Excel Links of the Week – What the heck happened to photographic fridays edition

Remember the photographic fridays? Some of you must be thinking whatever happened those posts? Well, my intention for writing those posts has been to get your feedback so that few of us can become better photographers. But flickr does a hell of better job for this than my little blog can. So I have decided […]

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Want to Feed RSS to your Excel Sheet? Read this!

Published on Jul 30, 2008 in ideas, Learn Excel

RSS feeds are everywhere. So much that you cannot avoid them in your data processing, analytics or day to day spreadsheet needs. If you can get the RSS feeds to excel sheet you can do pretty interesting things with it, like: Prepare a sheet to watch deals on Amazon, Craigslist, Deals2buy and other favorite sites […]

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