Have you ever found yourself staring at a blank Excel sheet, wishing you had the perfect dataset to test a formula, build a dashboard, or polish your data-cleaning skills? Creating custom datasets ...

Tools like Excel and Google Sheets are ubiquitous these days, and learning how to use them more effectively will quickly enhance your daily work. Alas, spreadsheets aren't always the easiest thing to ...

There is a stark example this week of how things are changing in the race toward artificial intelligence. This involves a household-name model, and an administrative technology that’s instantly ...

OpenAI unveiled GPT-5.4, its newest reasoning model, alongside a ChatGPT-powered add-in for Microsoft Excel. The tool lets users build and modify spreadsheet models using natural language inside ...

Tim Harford is right that layering AI on top of existing work creates overload, and his historical examples support this (“What if AI just makes us work harder?”, Magazine, March 7). But he chose the ...