Baby, we can never kill excel. Long live spreadsheets
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jan · 1 · 23h ago @liztai sometime around 2017 I was leading business intelligence team and we had continuously developed analytics #OLAP cube having about 50 dimensions (over 250 attributes) and about 200 measures. Financial team over years previous few years developed “mighty” #excel for financial reporting and […]
Jeff Sonstein · 0 · 17h ago @jan @liztai @aj I used to include this package in my survey class when we talked about “data in the wild” because I knew they would all be tortured by spreadsheets when they went into the work world ;^}
https://github.com/eBay/tsv-utils
jan · 1 · 16h ago @jsonstein @liztai @aj oh dear, the pain I have “enjoyed” with badly formated CSVs during whole my career, I can write book about :-D
Jeff Sonstein · 0 · 16h ago @jan @liztai @aj srsly yes… the things that ppl manage somehow to stick in cells are amazing 🤡
but then, who would have paid me to write twisted filters if not?
AJ Sadauskas · 0 · 14h ago @jsonstein @jan @liztai I've got a theory that how much developer time and attention, and budget, a given piece of software receives is directly proportional to how often a director or executive has to use it.
Things like the organisation's public-facing website homepage?
That's something the […]
Jeff Sonstein · 0 · 14h ago @aj @jan @liztai s’truth
Somebody, with or without management’s encouragement, will Copilot replace Gary’s spreadsheet, and hilarity/disaster will ensue. As for going back to Gary’s spreadsheet, I foresee a refusal to open the pod bay doors.
BTW, every spreadsheet I use at work, both mine and “Gary’s” opens with Copilot offering to clean the data.
No, I never take up the offer. It’d likely be an O(n^3) process, if not O(n!), and I wanted to get something done with the organization whose strengths and flaws are understood.
@liztai
Oh yeah. Those excels
@liztai
Hmm …
[thinking about what to put in that scene depicting #TeXLaTeX which is around since mid-1970s]