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Description
Updated in April 2018, this GitHub repository by bharathirajatut provides a collection of sample Excel spreadsheets for educational and testing purposes. It serves as a resource for students and developers needing varied spreadsheet data for software integration exercises. The repository includes multiple files, though specific row counts and column headers are not documented in the metadata.
Use Cases
Testing Excel file ingestion pipelines in R using the provided .xlsx or .xls samples
Practicing data manipulation and cleaning on varied spreadsheet structures for educational purposes
Validating SAS data import procedures using the repository's sample workbooks
Strengths
Includes multiple file samples for testing different spreadsheet scenarios
Explicitly tagged for use with R and SAS environments
Last updated in 2018, providing a stable set of static test files
Limitations
No documentation provided for column names or data types within the files
Dataset has not been updated since 2018, potentially lacking modern Excel feature testing
Unknown record counts and data volume across the repository
Provenance
Source
bharathirajatut (GitHub)
Freshness
The dataset has not been updated since April 2018.
Users must manually inspect individual files as there is no master manifest describing the contents of each spreadsheet.