The Excel VBA Option Explicit statement is such useful feature in Excel VBA, it is strange, this is the first time I am writing a post about it. It proves incredibly useful in preventing typos and other stupid mistakes when developing Visual Basic for Applications macros. But what does it actually do? What does Option […]
One of the most common mistakes in VBA is using incorrect forms/dialogs for usually simple tasks. The VBA UserForm is one of the most exploited VBA modules I have ever seen (as opposed to VBA Class modules which are underutilized ;)). VBA developers and Excel users seem to think often that every dialog box and […]
Today let’s expand on how to create shorter VBA code that is easier to read and manage. Writing VBA code that works is usually the tip of the iceberg for most. However, more importantly it is useful to be able to write VBA code that is clear and concise. Shorter and concise blocks of code […]
Programming is a skill often associated only with Developers and not so much with analysts or data scientists. Why learn to code when you have tools such as Excel with it’s PivotTables, filtering and formulas. On the other hand, when thinking about analytic tools it seems like Tableu, ClickView, SAS or IBM SPSS is the […]
Web Scraping is very useful for getting the information you need directly off websites. Sometimes however simple browser automation is not enough in terms of performance. Having created both the IE and Parallel classes I decided to jump an opportunity of creating a simple example of how mulithreaded browser automation can be achieved. Daniel Ferry […]