Essential Excel Data Analysis Functions

Excel has hundreds of functions and trying to match the proper formula with the right kind of data analysis can be overwhelming. It is not necessary for the most valuable functions to be difficult. You’ll wonder how you ever lived without fifteen easy functions that will increase your ability to interpret data.

1. Concatenate

When conducting data analysis, the formula =CONCATENATE is one of the simplest to understand but most powerful. Text, numbers, dates, and other data from numerous cells can be combined into a single cell.

SYNTAX = CONCATENATE (text1, text2, [text3], …)