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Using Excel for statistics: Short videos on cleaning data and dealing with missing data

These short videos demonstrate useful techniques for using Excel for statistics in GCSE and A level Mathematics, including the large data sets. Most are less than 5 minutes in length.

These videos use the World bank data set

This data set is not related to any exam specification; it has been chosen to illustrate the techniques.

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    Missing data: unmerging cells in Excel

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    Cleaning for missing data by filtering in Excel

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    Issues with missing data in Excel

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