Society is becoming increasingly data driven. Great if you are a programmer. As a non-programmer, you see the benefit, but you don't want to become a computer scientist, you just want to deal with data better. This is your handbook.In the age of ChatGPT and Generative AI, dealing with data is not about becoming a computer scientist or about what programming language to learn. Dealing with data is about developing a mindset. This mindset is driven by 7 essentials for dealing with data: file input, filter, group by, join, to long, to wide, and file output.That's all there is to it. This handbook teaches you how apply this mindset and the seven essentials in five tools: Excel, Python, R, Alteryx and SQL.