# Julia academy data science tutorial
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-academy-data-science-tutorial/98483
**Category:** New to Julia
**Created:** [May 8, 2023, 3:12pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-academy-data-science-tutorial/98483 "2023-05-08T15:12:58Z")
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### Author:  [@VISHWARATH\_T](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/VISHWARATH_T)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2023, 3:12pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-academy-data-science-tutorial/98483/1 "2023-05-08T15:12:58Z")
Hello I am not able to execute this command: G[1]
I executed this :
G = XLSX.readtable(“data/zillow\_data\_download\_april2020.xlsx”,“Sale\_counts\_city”)
XLSX.DataTable
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### Author:  [@Nathan\_Boyer](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Nathan_Boyer)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2023, 3:39pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-academy-data-science-tutorial/98483/2 "2023-05-08T15:39:14Z")
You should provide more information about what you are expecting to see and what you are seeing instead to get a more precise answer.
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I am guessing that recent updates to the XLSX package may use a different syntax than the older version used in the tutorial.
The code below will read your Excel table into a DataFrame and then access the first column.
```julia
using DataFrames, XLSX
G = DataFrame(XLSX.readtable("data/zillow_data_download_april2020.xlsx", "Sale_counts_city"))
first_column = G[:, 1]
```
Resources:
[https://felipenoris.github.io/XLSX.jl/dev/tutorial/#Read-Tabular-Data](https://felipenoris.github.io/XLSX.jl/dev/tutorial/#Read-Tabular-Data)
[https://dataframes.juliadata.org/stable/man/working\_with\_dataframes/#Working-with-Data-Frames](https://dataframes.juliadata.org/stable/man/working_with_dataframes/#Working-with-Data-Frames)
[https://tables.juliadata.org/dev/#Using-the-Interface-(i.e.-consuming-Tables.jl-compatible-sources)](https://tables.juliadata.org/dev/#Using-the-Interface-(i.e.-consuming-Tables.jl-compatible-sources))
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### Author:  [@VISHWARATH\_T](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/VISHWARATH_T)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2023, 9:05am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-academy-data-science-tutorial/98483/3 "2023-05-09T09:05:54Z")
Yes, I will be more clear next time! I thought that there would be a dedicated forum page for the Julia academy tutorials that would give the context of the posts. In its absence, I will make sure I give enough snapshots of the kind of issues I am facing.