Automating PowerPoint with Python. Useful tutorial on using ActivePython’s win32com module to automate PowerPoint. The example code pulls in the top 50 banks by assets from the Guardian Data Store and generates a treemap using PowerPoint’s shape drawing primitives.
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- Highlights from my appearance on the Data Renegades podcast with CL Kao and Dori Wilson - 26th November 2025
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