Downloading data from Wiki22/4/2022 Did you know about this cool tool, which allows you to download data from a Wikipedia table as a csv: wikitable2csv.ggor.de/  How to interpolate in a Spreadsheet15/4/2022 Here's a useful trick that you might not have seen before. Suppose we have some data with includes rows with values missing, then we can use the below formula to apply linear interpolate to fill in the missing datapoints, without having to laboriously type in the interpolation formula long hand (which I used to do all the time) 
I wrote a python script which uses Selenium to scrape the predictions for Fed rate movements from the CME FedWatch tool.
www.cmegroup.com/trading/interest-rates/countdown-to-fomc.html#resources The tool works by converting the price of a 30 day Fed Fund future into an implied probability of a given range of yields. The CME website embeds the output in a something called an 'iframe', which I had never heard of before, and the iframe then contains a dashboard powered by something called Quikstrike. It took me a while to figure out how to switch focus to the iframe, as you can't simply reference elements inside the iframe without first switching focus. The script below may not look too complicated, but believe me, it took a while to write. 
Old Federal Reserve building Philadelphia, Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Beyond_My_Ken
The official Microsoft documentation for the Excel Forecast.ETS function is pretty weak [1]. Below I’ve written a few notes on how the function works, and the underlying formulas.  Source: Microsoft office in Seattle, @Coolcaesar, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Building92microsoft.jpg
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