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Fuzzy Lookup: My Plugin Baby

2017-02-16
By: TheMole19
On: February 16, 2017
In: gis, tips, Uncategorized
Tagged: data, databases, excel, geospatial, gis, joins, plugin, tip, vlookup
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So this isn’t strictly a GIS or mapping tool or tip that I thought I’d share, but considering the amount of time and importance of joins, spreadsheets, datasets and databases in the profession, or even outside geospatial work, this little tool called ‘Fuzzy Lookup’ may come in handy. Often when trying to query, search or join up one table to another, or for whatever purpose, VLOOKUP can do just the job, ‘vertically looking up’ one value, in order to display another. If you are new or unfamiliar to VLOOKUP, Debra Dalgleish has an awesome blog, Contextures to help with this and much more even forRead More →

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