Solutions for Data Science

INDIRECT  is pretty cool for grabbing a value from a cell. Can  INDIRECT  point to a multi-cell range and be used in a  VLOOKUP  or  SUMIF  function?  You can build an  INDIRECT  function that points to a range. The range might be used as the lookup table in a  VLOOKUP  or as a range in  SUMIF  or  COUNTIF . In  Figure , the formula pulls data from the worksheets specified in row 4. The second argument in the  SUMIF  function looks for records that match a certain date from column A. Note:  Because each worksheet might have a different number of records, I chose to have each range extend to 300. This is a number that is sufficiently larger than the number of transactions on any sheet. The formula in cell B5 is: =SUMIF(INDIRECT(B$4&"!A2:A300"), $A5, INDIRECT(B$4&"!C2:C300")) Summary:  You can use  INDIRECT  to grab data from a multi-cell range.

We begin with a list of stock ticker symbols and their respective company names. Our objective is to display the monthly close stock price from a user-defined date to the present.  We also want to display an in-cell line chart that visualizes the monthly price changes while identifying the monthly high and low over the requested time. The  STOCKHISTORY  function retrieves historical data about a financial instrument and loads it as an array, which will spill if it’s the final result of a formula. This means that Excel will dynamically create the appropriately sized array range when you press  ENTER . The syntax for the STOCKHISTORY function is as follows ( optional arguments are in square brackets ): =STOCKHISTORY(stock, start_date, [end_date], [interval], [headers], [property0], [property1], [property2], [property3], [property4], [property5]) stock  – Enter a ticker symbol in double quotes ( g.,  “MSFT” ) or a reference to a cell containing the Stocks data...