# From Data collecting to Data Understanding: My First week Of Learning Excel

Familiar Tools Become New Again. Most professionals have, in one way or another, interacted with Excel at some point in their career, but often at the surface level, and honestly i was no exception. Having worked in the field of research, Drug discovery from natural products , Excel was always present in my workflow, primarily for collecting experimental data, storing results, sorting observations, and performing simple calculations. Then, this felt sufficient; the tool was actually doing what I needed! Or so I thought. However, my interaction with Excel at times reached a dead end. I often found myself wondering what some of these functions actually did, and I would resort to repeated referencing and online searches. Simple operations or tasks that should have been straightforward become tedious, time-consuming, and sometimes frustrating. My one week of learning Excel at LuxDev Academy has changed my perspective entirely. I've realized it is not just a spreadsheet tool; it's also a Da