JournalofAccountancy

Using Excel’s TEXTBEFORE AND TEXTAFTER functions to easily tame messy data

Q. How do the TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions in Excel work? A. Excel’s TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions allow users to quickly split up text in ways that used to require combinations of ...
Microsoft

LSEG and Microsoft transform access to AI-ready financial data in customer workflows

LONDON and REDMOND, Wash. — Oct. 13, 2025 — LSEG and Microsoft Corp. on Monday announced the next step in their multiyear, strategic partnership: transforming access to LSEG-licensed financial data ...
TechCrunch

Google makes real-world data more accessible to AI — and training pipelines will love it

Google is turning its vast public data trove into a goldmine for AI with the debut of the Data Commons Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server — enabling developers, data scientists, and AI agents to ...
The New York Times

Appeals Court Allows DOGE Access to Sensitive Data at Several Agencies

The decision cited a Supreme Court order in June granting DOGE analysts sweeping access to other data stored at the Social Security Administration. By Zach Montague Reporting from Washington A federal ...
JournalofAccountancy

Quickly clean data with Excel’s TRIMRANGE and trim references

Q. How do the TRIMRANGE function and trim references in Excel work? A. Excel’s TRIMRANGE function and trim references help users quickly tidy up datasets. This makes for a cleaner, easier-to-follow, ...
Newsweek

ICE Accessing Medicaid Data Raises Privacy, Health Concerns

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will begin giving Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) access to personal Medicaid records, a decision that has ignited outrage from experts who ...
Wired

ICE Is Getting Unprecedented Access to Medicaid Data

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials are getting access to the personal data of nearly 80 million people on Medicaid in order to acquire "information concerning the identification and ...
The Hill

Trump knocks down barriers around personal data, raising alarm

The Trump administration is shattering norms around the handling of Americans’ personal — and sometimes private — information, dismantling barriers around data ...
Geeky Gadgets

Quick Excel Python Hacks for Advanced Automated Data Analysis

What if you could turn Excel into a powerhouse for advanced data analysis and automation in just a few clicks? Imagine effortlessly cleaning messy datasets, running complex calculations, or generating ...
CNN

DOGE just got a green light to access your Social Security data. Here’s what that means

When people think of Social Security, they typically think of monthly benefits — for the roughly 69 million retirees, disabled workers, dependents and survivors who receive them today. But efforts by ...
TechCrunch

Collibra acquires data access startup Raito

Collibra, a data governance platform based in Brussels, is the latest enterprise to acquire a data company in order to expand its offerings in the age of AI. On Thursday, Collibra announced its ...