The SQL LISTAGG function in Snowflake or Redshift (or STRING_AGG in BigQuery) are aggregation functions that condense textual data into easy-to-view reports. Similar to other aggregation functions (like SUM or MAX), these functions aggregate data according to the column names in a GROUP BY clause. This is a common pattern for rolling up a column …
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You have probably imagined a Google Spreadsheet function that did exactly what you needed it to without messing around with 17 different functions just to get the desired result. Well, you are in luck! Google Spreadsheets supports custom macros written with Google Apps Script for this very reason. If you are familiar with Excel and …
There is something so fitting about working with URLs in Google Apps Script and Google Spreadsheets. The cloud-based software works in the browser where, indeed, there are a lot of URLs to work with. Google Apps Script’s doPost, doGet, and UrlFetchApp make HTTP requests to URLs easy. Google Spreadsheets has similar functionality with IMPORTXML, IMPORTHTML, IMPORTFEED, and IMPORTDATA. If you work in web analytics, digital marketing, …
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ZIP codes are a very useful and common way to gather location data. But zip codes alone are often less useful than the city, state, latitude and longitude that correspond to the zip code. City and state/region, allow you to group the data with a pivot table while City and state/region, allow you to group and …
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Business and education administration often involves an overwhelming amount of repetitive tasks. We work in cycles of days, weeks, months, and years with multiple students, clients, employees, or team members. This adds up to multiples of multiple tasks. Luckily, automating repetitive and work-intensive tasks is just one of the many things Google Apps Script was made for. In …
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If you come from Excel, you might have seen some fancy spreadsheets with clickable buttons that trigger VBA macros. Luckily, Google Spreadsheets and Google Apps Script offer the same functionality. If you are just starting out with Google Apps Script, check out this Google Apps Script macro tutorial for a beginner’s guide. This tutorial will demonstrate how …
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It is fitting that my first post on this site is about custom menus with Google Apps Script, because, often, custom menus are your users’ first touch with your custom functionality. Your users will be surprised the first time they see the custom menu on their Google App UI. And they will be delighted when the functionality …
I geeked out recently over the Android task automation app, Automate. The reason I got so excited was that it provided a very elegant solution for creating a custom NFC sensor for a project I’ve been working on. What I also came to find out was that Automate opened up a lot of possibilities beyond …
When you reach the limits of Google Analytics custom reports and you still need more, Google Spreadsheets and the Google Analytics Add-On can take you past sampling, data consistency and dimension challenges. This post is all about the Google Analytics + Google Spreadsheets workflow. It is an end-to-end example of how you can extract more …
Google Analytics to Google Spreadsheets is Data to Insights Read More »
I recently ran into this problem when I was looking at someones Adwords account and wanted to get an idea about all the unique keywords that they were using. I used the following formula to get an array of all unique keywords: =UNIQUE(SPLIT(CONCATENATE(‘Keyword Report’!B2:B),” “)) But then I encountered a problem: “Error Result was not automatically …
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