Daljit Dhadwal

Ideas, books, software, and other useful tools

Summarizing values from multiple columns into one column in Excel

When extracted, data collected using radio buttons sometimes comes out as a TRUE/FALSE column for each option. For example, data from the following question: may look like this in the extract: Data that is spread over multiple columns like this can be hard to analyze (e.g., pivot tables don’t work well with this kind of […]

Revising your work

As DeLillo matured as a writer, his detritus increased . . . . in the early eighties, he began . . . to type each paragraph over and over, often on its own page, so that within a draft a paragraph may appear a dozen times on a dozen sheets, as he works it to […]