You Can't Open 16.3 Million Records in Excel

Have you ever tried to open a big dataset in Microsoft Excel? It turns out that Excel has some hard limits on how big of a file you can open - 1,048,576 rows to be exact. What do you do if you want to open up a dataset that's larger than that?

What about other issues with Excel? Have you ever wanted to merge two datasets together, but found that to be difficult to do? If those are use cases that you're interested in, then you need other tools.

Recently, the Delaware Department of Education released over 16.3 million records of aggregate student and educator performance data onto the state's open data portal (data.delaware.gov). If you're interested in maximizing your ability to work with those datasets, then you'll need to be able to solve both of those use cases - opening a big dataset and joining tables.

In this workshop, we'll talk about how to solve these issues and other common use cases that you might be interested in for working with the Department of Education's treasure trove of data.

To help us best prepare for the workshop, help us out by filling out this brief survey!

http://bit.ly/EducationDataWorkshopSurvey

More details about location and agenda coming soon!