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xlwings Lite Practice Lab - a free, hands-on guide for Excel professionals

Published: June 29, 2025

Launching xlwings Lite Practice Lab - a free, hands-on guide for Excel professionals who want to use Python in Excel, specifically designed for those with zero coding experience.

It's designed to get your first AI-assisted automation running in minutes. The lab launches with its first foundational module: data manipulation, visualization, and generating AI-driven variables. The starter kit for this module provides everything you need to begin.

What's in the Starter Kit for Module-01:

Future modules will cover topics like database integration, advanced visualizations & AI enabled automations. The entire lab is, and always will be, free.

xlwings 'Lite' is a heavyweight in disguise

Felix Zumstein built a powerhouse. It goes beyond automation, transforming Excel into an application front-end for custom APIs, databases, web scraping, and even running full machine learning models - I've published live xlwings Lite apps with the code on my site.

But do I need to know Python?

Honestly, it helps, but it's not required to get started. If you don't know a df from a def, no worries - you'll learn what you need by doing, with AI as your guide.

Your real value isn't writing code. It's your ability to design the analytics, spot data gotchas, validate business outcome and make it work in the human world. That's the expertise AI can't replace.

I've spent over 25 years executing analytics and data science projects- from global financial corporations to small businesses, all with lovingly hand-crafted code before Gen AI came.

But my bosses and clients taught me what really matters: they remember the impact I created, but not the code that produced it.

Let AI code for you - let us focus on business outcomes.

Get the free Starter Kit, and explore live xlwings Lite Apps on my TIGZIG Co-Analyst site

xlwings Lite official site: lite.xlwings.org