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<https://williamgpooley.wordpress.com/2024/05/22/sheet-happens/|Sheet Happens>

&gt; But until I put the numbers in and tried to write about them… I did not know what I was trying to count, or what it would be possible to count. The spreadsheet is not a neutral tool of objective social quantification: it is the story of my research process.


&gt; ‘Avoid using the software’s “date” format.’ (59) Instead use three columns for day month year. (_As any pre-20th century social historian will tell you, the Excel date function does not work for dates before 1900!_
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Excellent advice. And apart from the date thing, pretty universally applicable.

Related :hankey::hankey:
<https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/6/21355674/human-genes-rename-microsoft-excel-misreading-dates>