Easy Data Transform v2.13.0 is now available
Easy Data Transform v2.13.0 is now available for Windows and Mac. Improvements include:
- Easy Data Transform is now cleverer about restoring column-related options when you disconnect from one item and connect to another.
- A new List transform has been added, supporting a range of list-based operations.
- The Split Col transform now has additional Into options:
- Count vectors
- One hot encoding
- Various datetime related operations have been added to the Calculate transform. These can be useful for timezone conversion.
- Changes to Right pane Data tab keyboard shortcuts.
- Minor improvements.
Find out more and download the new release:
This is a free upgrade for everyone with a valid v2 license. If you purchased a v2 license you can have it resent here.
If you don’t have a v2 license you can purchase one here.
If you have a v1 license, you can upgrade to v2 Core Edition with a 60% discount here. See also the upgrade FAQ.
If you have a v2 Core Edition license, you can upgrade to v2 Advanced Edition here. See also the upgrade FAQ.
Thanks to everyone who sent us bug reports and suggestions for improvements.
Beware the AI
Various AIs have been aggressively crawling our website and documentation. Consequently, you can get some useful answers to Easy Data Transform related questions from AIs. However, you can also get completely wrong answers, delivered with great confidence. And it is hard to tell which is which.
For example, we asked Microsoft Copilot how to do ‘one hot encoding’ in Easy Data Transform (before the new One hot encoding option was added to Split Col). It came back with a fulsome explanation, including this summary table of the transforms required:
Just one problem - only 1 of these 4 transforms actually exists (Split Col). It just hallucinated (made up) the other 3!
We also had a customer ask us what had happened to the time zone conversion feature in v1. They included a ChatGPT explanation of how to do time zone conversion in v1. However, this feature did not exist in v1 (we have just added it in this release). The AI had hallucinated it. Weirdest of all, ChatGPT even hallucinated an AI fever-dream screenshot of Easy Data Transform, with the non-existent feature!
The icons are a bit messed up, otherwise it looks plausible. We find this simultaneously impressive and terrifying.
So beware of answers from AIs. You are much more likely to get an accurate answer on our forum.
It hopefully goes without saying, that we wouldn’t trust an AI to actually do any data transformation.
And finally…
A scan of 600 scientific papers revealed 18 with suspicious data sequences. These sequences could be due to careless copy and paste or outright data fabrication.
Scientific datasets are riddled with copy-paste errors
We would be interested to hear from any customers using Easy Data Transform for fraud/forensic investigation of data.
Andy Brice
Oryx Digital Ltd
07-May-2026