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Aside from typing information into Excel, there are a number of other ways to get new data into spreadsheets. These methods include opening structured, plain-text files in ways that are meaningful to Excel (for example, rawdata.txt); using other desktop applications as data sources (such as tables in MS Word and tabular results from SPSS); drawing information from structured or nonstructured online sources (such as content from COMPUSTAT or even the whitepages.com); and developing systems that create or simulate large volumes of data with desired characteristics (mainly for use in illustrating or testing the robustness of proposed management policies). In this chapter, we'll touch on each of these methods at some level.
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Aside from typing information into Excel, there are a number of other ways to get new data into spreadsheets. These methods include opening structured, plain-text files in ways that are meaningful to Excel (for example, rawdata.txt); using other desktop applications as data sources (such as tables in MS Word and tabular results from SPSS); drawing information from structured or nonstructured online sources (such as content from COMPUSTAT or even the whitepages.com); and developing systems that create or simulate large volumes of data with desired characteristics (mainly for use in illustrating or testing the robustness of proposed management policies). In this chapter, we'll touch on each of these methods at some level.
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