In August 2024, 1.42 million new vehicles were estimated to have been sold across the United States. This marks a 9.9% increase over July and a 6.1% increase compared to August 2023.
In July 2024, 1.29 million new vehicles were estimated to have been sold across the United States. This marks a 3.4% decrease from June and a 1.3% decrease compared to July 2023.
Colonnade Advisors, an M&A investment bank, faced a significant data challenge when a client provided customer data in an Excel file and CSV format. The data was disorganized, with customer information spread across multiple rows—sometimes as many as ten per customer. With hundreds of thousands of rows, the fragmented data made it nearly impossible to efficiently manipulate or analyze the dataset.