Ryan Sheehy
Recently, I had an issue where I needed to calculate the age of a person at specific dates throughout the year. Using a Google Sheet, I thought I could simply subtract one date from the other and divide by 365, but this ended up not being as accurate as I wanted. To calculate somebody’s age …
Recently, I had an exercise where I needed to flatten a two-dimensional list down to just one dimension, something where I needed the result to be like this: There were a couple of ways I completed this task, one involved using the common for-loop process but as a one-liner, another involved using a standard Python …
In Python there is a handy function to determine the data type of any variable, and it is aptly called type(). This function can help to assess whether a variable is of a certain data type to help you perform any type of computation on it. The different data types available in Python are: int, …
How do you count a range of cells and exclude counting empty or blank ones in Google Sheets? The easiest approach to count cells that are not blank is to use the COUNTA() function. The COUNTA() function has the following parameters: The COUNTA() Google Sheets function takes one or more values and counts those values …
There have been times when I wanted to perform a simple for-loop filter operation on a list, and I’ve often wondered if there’s a quick and simple way to do this without having to import any libraries. What I discovered is that there was an easy way, and what’s awesome about it is that it …
In my previous article where I found the average of a list in Python without using imports, in this article I want to expand how you could apply the same concept, but to two-dimensional lists. Thankfully, if you know how to find the average of a one dimensional list in Python, you can simply expand …
