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I Want To Hack
Eamonn Cottrell
35 episodes
4 months ago
Weekly discussion of coding and spreadsheets in real life business applications.
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Weekly discussion of coding and spreadsheets in real life business applications.
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Technology
Business,
Entrepreneurship
Episodes (20/35)
I Want To Hack
Easy Web Scraping With Google Sheets

Hi there! We are looking at the 5 Import functions built in to Google Sheets. There's an accompanying video and spreadsheet demo linked below for you!👇

Thanks for listening, I Want to Hack is a weekly discussion of coding and spreadsheet concepts. I hope you'll subscribe to follow along! Links at the bottom, but if you do nothing else, would you consider subscribing to my YouTube channel where I share spreadsheet and coding tutorials? 😉

Episode Overview:

  • Video Playlist
  • Spreadsheet Example


Please subscribe to this podcast if you haven't already! I really appreciate it, and look forward to talking with you on the next pod!

More Resources:

  • Watch me on YouTube @eamonncottrell 
  • Subscribe to my newsletter
  • Follow me on Linkedin @EamonnCottrell
  • Buy me a coffee on BuyMeACoffee
  • Laugh at me on gitHub @sieis
  • Find me on my site
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2 years ago
8 minutes

I Want To Hack
Custom Named Functions in Google Sheets

Hi there! We are talking about how to create custom named functions in Google Sheets (works in Excel too). There's an accompanying video and spreadsheet demo linked below for you!👇

Thanks for listening, I Want to Hack is a weekly discussion of coding and spreadsheet concepts. I hope you'll subscribe to follow along! Links at the bottom, but if you do nothing else, would you consider subscribing to my YouTube channel where I share spreadsheet and coding tutorials? 😉 I'm hoping to grow this to 1000 subscribers this year!

Episode Overview:

  • Video Walkthrough
  • Demo Google Sheet
  • In depth article on freeCodeCamp

Google Sheets has over 500 built in functions you can use out of the box, but sometimes it can be helpful to create a custom one. Instead of manually typing it out every time you need it, you can create a custom named function. It's a pretty straightforward process, and I hope you find this useful!


Please subscribe to this podcast if you haven't already! I really appreciate it, and look forward to talking with you on the next pod!

More Resources:

  • Find me on my site
  • Watch me on YouTube @eamonncottrell 
  • Follow me on Linkedin @EamonnCottrell
  • Buy me a coffee on BuyMeACoffee
  • Laugh at me on gitHub @sieis
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2 years ago
4 minutes

I Want To Hack
Reduce Errors with Data Validation and Conditional Formatting

Hi there! We are talking about how to reduce errors with data validation and conditional formatting in spreadsheets this week. There's an accompanying video and spreadsheet demo linked below for you!👇

Thanks for listening, I Want to Hack is a weekly discussion of coding and spreadsheet concepts. I hope you'll subscribe to follow along! Links at the bottom, but if you do nothing else, would you consider subscribing to my YouTube channel where I share spreadsheet and coding tutorials? 😉 I'm hoping to grow this to 1000 subscribers this year!

Episode Overview:

  • Video Walkthrough
  • Demo Google Sheet
  • In depth article on freeCodeCamp

In our business, we use spreadsheets for a lot of our inventory management and ordering. We needed a way to prevent human errors in one of our order forms, and were able to do this by combining data validation and conditional formatting.

This episode is an overview of the use cases for this and the ways to save time and errors in the process.


Please subscribe to this podcast if you haven't already! I really appreciate it, and look forward to talking with you on the next pod!

More Resources:

  • Find me on my site
  • Watch me on YouTube @eamonncottrell 
  • Follow me on Linkedin @EamonnCottrell
  • Buy me a coffee on BuyMeACoffee
  • Laugh at me on gitHub @sieis
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2 years ago
4 minutes

I Want To Hack
Nested Functions

Hi there! We are discussing nesting functions in Google Sheets this week! There's an accompanying video and spreadsheet demo linked below for you!👇

Thanks for listening, I Want to Hack is a weekly discussion of coding and spreadsheet concepts. I hope you'll subscribe to follow along! Links at the bottom, but if you do nothing else, would you consider subscribing to my YouTube channel where I share spreadsheet and coding tutorials? 😉 I'm hoping to grow this to 1000 subscribers this year!

Episode Overview:

I had a question in the comments on my most watched video asking how to count unique values in a comma-separated list. I was intrigued and made it my topic of conversation this week!

Here’s the functions we used:
=UNIQUE(SORT(TRANSPOSE(SPLIT(JOIN(", ",A2:A),", ",FALSE))))

=COUNTIF(SPLIT(JOIN(", ",$A$2:$A),", "),E19)

The links to my video walkthrough and article are available below.

Please subscribe to this podcast if you haven't already! I really appreciate it, and look forward to talking with you on the next pod!

Resources mentioned:

  • Video Walkthrough of nesting functions and finding unique values
  • 30sec YouTube Short preview
  • In depth article on freeCodeCamp
  • Find me on my site
  • Watch me on YouTube @eamonncottrell 
  • Follow me on Linkedin @EamonnCottrell
  • Buy me a coffee on BuyMeACoffee
  • Laugh at me on gitHub @sieis
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2 years ago
8 minutes

I Want To Hack
Grainy CSS Backgrounds

Hi there! We are discussing how to add a grainy effect to our CSS backgrounds this week. Full video walkthrough and article in the links below 👇

Thanks for listening, I Want to Hack is a weekly discussion of coding and spreadsheet concepts. I hope you'll subscribe to follow along! Links at the bottom, but if you do nothing else, would you consider subscribing to my YouTube channel where I share spreadsheet and coding tutorials? 😉 I'm hoping to grow this to 1000 subscribers this year!

Episode Overview:

I found a couple of cool ways to add a grainy-ness to solid background colors. I talk about them in the pod this week, and go through them in detail in the accompanying article and video.

The links to my video walkthrough and article are available below.

Please subscribe to this podcast if you haven't already! I really appreciate it, and look forward to talking with you on the next pod!

Resources mentioned:

  • Video Walkthrough for Grainy CSS Backgrounds
  • 15sec YouTube Short
  • Arc site
  • Grainy Gradient Playground
  • In depth article
  • feTurbulence MDN docs
  • URL encoder for inline CSS
  • Find me on my site
  • Watch me on YouTube @eamonncottrell 
  • Follow me on Linkedin @EamonnCottrell
  • Buy me a coffee on BuyMeACoffee
  • Laugh at me on gitHub @sieis
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2 years ago
6 minutes

I Want To Hack
XLOOKUP and Data Sets in Google Sheets and Excel

Hi there! We are using LOOKUP functions in Google Sheets and Excel this week! We're focused on the XLOOKUP in the pod, but all are explained in the video linked below 👇

Thanks for listening, I Want to Hack is a weekly discussion of coding and spreadsheet concepts. I hope you'll subscribe to follow along! Links at the bottom, but if you do nothing else, would you consider subscribing to my YouTube channel where I share spreadsheet and coding tutorials? 😉 I'm hoping to grow this to 1000 subscribers this year!

Episode Overview:

Walking through the functionality of the XLOOKUP function in both Excel and Google Sheets. XLOOKUP was added by Microsoft in 2019 as a successor to VLOOKUP and HLOOKUP. Google Sheets added it in 2022. It combines the best features of VLOOKUP and HLOOKUP, and is able to be used as either a vertical or horizontal lookup function itself. It's become my favorite way to lookup data. What about you?

The links to my video walkthrough and the Google Sheet we're using are available below.

Please subscribe to this podcast if you haven't already! I really appreciate it, and look forward to talking with you on the next pod!

Resources mentioned:

  • Video Walkthrough for XLOOKUP and More
  • Example Google Sheet with the Code
  • In depth article
  • Find me on my site
  • Watch me on YouTube @eamonncottrell 
  • Follow me on Linkedin @EamonnCottrell
  • Buy me a coffee on BuyMeACoffee
  • Laugh at me on gitHub @sieis
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2 years ago
6 minutes

I Want To Hack
Dynamic Listing with Query in Google Sheets

Hi there! We are building a dynamic daily task list in Google Sheets this week!

Thanks for listening, I Want to Hack is a weekly discussion of coding and spreadsheet concepts. I hope you'll subscribe to follow along! Links at the bottom, but if you do nothing else, would you consider subscribing to my YouTube channel where I share spreadsheet and coding tutorials? 😉 I'm hoping to grow this to 1000 subscribers this year!

Episode Overview:

Walking through a dynamic daily task list created in Google Sheets using the =QUERY() function to pull certain data from another tab into a dashboard on the main page depending on what day it is.

The links to my video walkthrough and the Google Sheet we're using are available below.

Please subscribe to this podcast if you haven't already! I really appreciate it, and look forward to talking with you on the next pod!

Resources mentioned:

  • Video Walkthrough for Dynamic Daily Task List
  • Example Google Sheet with the Code
  • In depth article
  • Find me on my site
  • Watch me on YouTube @eamonncottrell 
  • Follow me on Linkedin @EamonnCottrell
  • Buy me a coffee on BuyMeACoffee
  • Laugh at me on gitHub @sieis
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2 years ago
6 minutes

I Want To Hack
Validate Your Data - Multiple Selections with Apps Script
Use Google Apps Script to allow multiple selections in your data validation drop down menus.
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2 years ago
4 minutes

I Want To Hack
Clean Your Own Data
Cleaning, Trimming and Importing Data in Excel and Google Sheets. Video Walkthrough in Description 👇
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2 years ago
5 minutes

I Want To Hack
Dollar Dollar Bill Show Me The Money, Excel
All about accounting formatting in Microsoft Excel.
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2 years ago
8 minutes

I Want To Hack
Less Code More Content
All about my content cadence plans for the year: 50 articles, 50 videos and 50 podcasts giving back to the coding community I've been fortunate to learn from!
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2 years ago
7 minutes

I Want To Hack
Design Product Release on Gumroad
I have released another FREE product on Gumroad. Join me for a five minute overview of it and the other products/projects I'm working on this year!
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3 years ago
5 minutes

I Want To Hack
Tag and Release
Learned about versioning and git tagging while releasing an official v1.0.0-beta to my Infinite Memory project.
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3 years ago
4 minutes

I Want To Hack
Scattered and Plotted
Recovering from a case of stupid, I finish the D3 Scatterplot Project and rejoice!
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3 years ago
5 minutes

I Want To Hack
Vanilla JS FTW
Quick run-through of a basic Javascript project I finished today! Site live: https://infinite-memory.netlify.app/
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3 years ago
5 minutes

I Want To Hack
Sacred Geometry
I start another D3 visualization project and then run way into left field designing sacred geometric in Illustrator.
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3 years ago
5 minutes

I Want To Hack
Victory in the Time of Data
Weekly recap of how I found my mistake in the d3 project code. Having a lot of fun with these visualization projects with more great stuff coming soon!
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3 years ago
4 minutes

I Want To Hack
Beating My Head Against A Bar Chart Wall
A week long bar chart project using D3.js has almost come to an end, were it not for a frustrating final test case that currently does not work.
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3 years ago
4 minutes

I Want To Hack
Google Sheeting and Data Validating
A fun discovery in Google Sheets with my 5 year old leads to a spreadsheet with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles referencing and multiple item selections through data validation.
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3 years ago
4 minutes

I Want To Hack
MERN D3 and onClick
Recapping the last few days of 100DaysOfCode.
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3 years ago
6 minutes

I Want To Hack
Weekly discussion of coding and spreadsheets in real life business applications.