I am doing a test for a data analytics bootcamp. i have to use google sheets and i am an absolute beginner.
We have a dataset called products that we have to extract on a google spreadsheet first. I will upload the link to my google spreadsheet here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1m67VmLZispyTwFTmPdppsdJNtbvnZsZK2LBCSchUWmU/edit?usp=sharing
the question is to use a formula to say what the average unit price of all products listed is.
My formula was to write under colum F(unit price) the formula: =AVERAGE(F2:F78). but the number i get is 44702 which cant be correct, if you look at the table.
also i dont know if i have to consider Column E, where the quantityperunit is stated to answer the question.
Could someone please help me?
I feel like I answered this for you in another post recently. But I can add more details.
You are working with a spreadsheet that seems to have been created in the United States, yet you've set the locale to Germany. This is creating a conflict, because the decimal separator in Germany is a comma while the decimal separator in the US is a period.
In addition, your Col-F values are all strings, not numbers — except for the one entry in F66. So you have mixed data types, and math functions can't act on that mix.
This leaves the only valid number being 21.05. However, as I said, in Germany, this is not a valid number. It's a date: May 21. And the data of May 21 (2022) is 44702 days since the Google Sheets origin date of December 30, 1899 (which is how Sheets stores all dates). So that is why you are getting that result.
If you change your locale to "United States," this will solve some of your issues. But no matter what your locale, it won't change those strings in Col F to real numbers. So you'll need to convert them in place, or your formula is going to need to account for them.
Seeing as this is an assignment, it's unclear whether the instructor intended for you to have to address these problems, or whether the additional problems are an unintentional result of spreadsheet conversions that happened somewhere.
In addition to all of that, you interpreted the original question in your post rather than sharing the actual exact wording of the question; and wording matters.
First, I would ask the instructor if the numbers in Col F were all supposed to be real numbers, or if most of them being strings is part of the assignment.
In any case, given exactly what you have right now, this should produce the average unit price (regardless of quantity in stock, as we don't know the actual wording of that question):
=ArrayFormula(ROUND(AVERAGE(VALUE(SUBSTITUTE(F2:F78&"",".",","))),2))
It's a lot longer than it would have needed to be if not for the multiple factors I described above. That is, given the locale setting of Germany and the fact that you have mixed data types, all of the Col-F values had to be converted to strings, then all of the periods had to be SUBSTITUTEd with commas, then they all had to be converted to numbers with VALUE before AVERAGE could be applied.
As GOOGLEFINANCE() seems very limited in the cryptocurrencies it supports, are there any (free?) APIs that I can use to get data from?
Although I use GF() for ETH and BTC, I'm specifically looking for Price and Historical Closing Prices on ADA (Cardano).
I've searched the forum for suggestions, there aren't many and most are old. Binance's API seemed OK, but it gives prices in USDT instead of USD.
If anyone is interested, I found an API that offers a free key, although limited in the number of daily calls you can make: CoinAPI.
It seems very powerful, with quotes available in most currencies. So far, I've managed to get a current price:
Formulas shown in brown.
(1) shows the raw data returned, a two rows delimited by semi-colons.
(2) wraps a QUERY() around IMPORTDATA(), using offset 1 plus param 0, to not return the header row, then wraps all that in SPLIT() to separate the delimited text into columns.
(3) wraps (2) with INDEX() so I can get just the Price in the 4th col.
As this value will not automatically update like GOOGLEFINANCE(), I think I'll need to set a Trigger to do that.
I've also retrieved historical data, but I've yet to figure out how to split multiple rows of delimited text from the IMPORTDATA() function.
[Edit] See the solution to splitting multiple rows by #player0 at https://stackoverflow.com/a/69055990/190925.
I'm using Google Sheets to organize data from my global royalty statements. Currently I'm querying several tabs (one for each country) to produce a single table with results from all countries. As you can imagine, I don't want 125 Japanese Yen showing up in my charts and graphs as $125 USD (125 Y is equivalent to about $1.09 USD).
Since I receive my royalty statements in their respective currencies, I'd like to apply average conversion rates either during the query operation or after the fact. Since the table is being generated dynamically, the values won't always be the same, so I need some way to apply the conversion by searching the list of currencies on the fly. I've got a separate table on the same tab containing all the average conversion rates for each currency. Here's a sample of how this is set up:
So basically I just don't know how to say, in coding terms, "If this line item comes from the UK, divide the royalty amount by the UK exchange rate. If it comes from Canada, divide by the Canadian rate, etc."
Anyone have any insight as to how I might pull this off (or whether it's possible)? The actual table includes over 500 line items from a dozen different countries, so doing this by hand is something I'd like to avoid.
I believe you are looking for the GoogleFinance() function. You may want to set the Country to a pick list of the valid country entries so you could create the string for the conversion. I have not looked at many, but this will take a value in CA & and apply the exchange rate to convert it to the US $ Equivalent. The exchange rate in this case is an average of, I believe, the past 30 days.
=C2 * GoogleFinance("CURRENCY:CADUSD" , "average")
For your use, you can get the country code from row M if you change it to match what the formula is after, such as CAD for Canadian Dollars."
=C2 * GoogleFinance("CURRENCY:" & M2 & "USD" , "average")
Another option would be to create a lookup table and use VLOOKUP or some other function, depending on how you set up your table.
I wrote a =QUERY formula in Google spreadsheet. However I would like to copy not only the values of the cells but also the embedded links from the range of cells I am performing the query on. This is what I wrote:
=QUERY('Tab'!6:1963,"select C where (E='Major' and D >= now())")
There must be a way to tell the query to bring the URL as well along the content of the cells.
The query function only supports certain data types:
Supported data types are string, number, boolean, date, datetime and timeofday.
It doesn't handle other things one might embed into a spreadsheet, such as images or hyperlinks. (Hyperlinks are coerced to strings.) After all, the query language is not something Sheets-specific, it has its own data models that interact with Sheets only to an extent.
A solution is to use filter instead of query, if possible. It can do many of the things that query does. For example,
=QUERY(Tab!6:1963,"select C where (E='Major' and D >= now())")
can be replaced by
=filter(Tab!C6:C1963, (Tab!E6:E1963="Major") * (Tab!E6:E1963 >= now()))
which will return the links as expected. (And even images inserted with =image() if you got them.) The multiplication operator is logical and in the filter formula.
I know this is three years later, but I ran into this issue and my query would have converted to a complicated nest of FILTER and SORT functions. So I ended up doing something like this: ARRAYFORMULA(VLOOKUP(QUERY('Tab'!6:1963,"select C where (E='Major' and D >= now())"),C:C,1,FALSE))
Which worked.
Often this question comes into play with IMPORTRANGE. And Google's official answer does not really help (i.e. QUERY only works with strings, etc.). It is possible to give the filter range as an imported range, too, then it works:
=FILTER(IMPORTRANGE("XXX","Data!A1:A),
IMPORTRANGE("XXX","Data!B1:B")>0)
where column A is the data you want to import and column B is the filter
I'd like to know if it is possible to query a past exchange rate on Google Spreadsheet.
For example; using formula =GoogleFinance("CURRENCY:USDEUR") will return the USD/EUR rate at this present moment. How can you retrieve a historic rate?
In order to retrieve the historical rate, you have to use the following formula:
=GoogleFinance("eurusd","price",today()-1,today())
where today()-1, today() is the desired time interval, which can be explicitly defined as the static pair of dates, or implicitly, as the dynamically calculated values, like in the example above. This expression returns a two-column array of the dates and close values. It is important to care about the suitable cell format (date/number), otherwise your data will be broken.
If you want to get the pure row with the date and currency exchange rate without column headers, wrap your formula with the INDEX() function:
=INDEX(GoogleFinance("eurusd","price",today()-1,today()),2,)
To retrieve the exchange rate value only, define the column number parameter:
=INDEX(GoogleFinance("eurusd","price",today()-1,today()),2,2)
To get today's currency exchange rates in Google Docs/Spreadsheet from Google Finance:
=GoogleFinance("eurusd","price",today())
A shorter way to get today's rates:
=GoogleFinance("currency:usdeur")
P.S. There is also the way to get live currency exchange rate in Microsoft Excel.
Try,
=GoogleFinance("usdeur","price",date(2013,12,1),date(2013,12,16))
Make sure that the dates are as per your spreadsheet settings.
Edit as comment, changed date for capturing single day data:-
Only with headers:
=INDEX(GoogleFinance("usdeur","price",date(2013,12,3),date(2013,12,4)),,2)
without headers:
=FILTER(INDEX(GoogleFinance("usdeur","price",date(2013,12,3),date(2013,12,4)),,2),INDEX(GoogleFinance("usdeur","price",date(2013,12,3),date(2013,12,4)),,2)<>"Close")
The instructions for all related to googlefinance are in here: https://support.google.com/docs/answer/3093281
Remember the actual Google Spreadsheets Formulas use semicolon (;) instead of comma (,).
Once made the replacement on some examples would look like this:
For a 30 day INDEX of USD vs EUR you should use (note that in the case of currencies they go together in the same first variable):
=INDEX(GoogleFinance(USDEUR;"price";today()-30;today());2;2)
TIP: You can get the graph over the entire size of the cell by simply changing INDEX for SPARKLINE, like this:
=SPARKLINE(GoogleFinance(USDEUR;"price";today()-30;today());2;2)
Vasim's answer is excellent, however notice if you want the exchange date on that day only, you can omit the range and just specify the day such as the following
=FILTER(INDEX(GoogleFinance("usdeur","price",today()),,2),INDEX(GoogleFinance("usdeur","price",today()),,2)<>"Close")
You may notice that GOOGLEFINANCE will return N/A for some dates, this is because the date is a day off (usually a weekend), what you can do is to get the last working from the specified date, e.g. Jun 21st 2015 is Sunday, so you should request the rate for Jun 19th (Friday), you can do this via WORKDAY function as was suggested here:
WORKDAY("6/21/2015"+1,-1)
So, the resulting formula will look something like that:
INDEX(GoogleFinance("CURRENCY:USDRUB", "price", WORKDAY("6/21/2015"+1,-1),1),2,2)
Additionally, you want to get the exchange rates for future dates you can additionally check if the date is in the future and if so, just use the today date:
WORKDAY(IF("6/21/2099">TODAY(),TODAY(),"6/21/2099")+1,-1)
For bigger spreadsheets, Google Sheets limitations usually will show randomly the following error:
Error Function INDEX parameter 2 value is 2. Valid values are between
0 and 1 inclusive.
Even modifying Index() and GoogleFinance() following the expected parameters GOOGLEFINANCE(ticker, [attribute], [start_date], [end_date|num_days], [interval]) the error will continue.
A workaround is to copy smaller parts into new spreadsheets but often it will fail.
As an alternative, I used ImportXML as web scraper for x-rates historical currency exchange data.
=index(IMPORTXML("https://www.x-rates.com/historical/?from="&N2&"&amount="&K2&"&date="&YEAR(B2)&"-"&TEXT(B2,"mm")&"-"&TEXT(B2,"dd")&"","//td[#class='rtRates']"),1)
I'm assuming column B are dates, K is for amounts and N for currencies.
Randomly it also will fail for a 2000+ rows spreadsheet but overall for my requirement, it worked too much better than GoogleFinance()
ImportXML examples
The ImportXML Guide for Google Docs from beginner to advanced
Other option is using the CurrencyConverter function from this Google Sheets add-on.
It is fast and and has simple syntax. For example,
=CurrencyConverter(100, "USD", "EUR", "2/28/2020")
returns 91.09957183