wait who’s complaining about excel?
# linking-together
i
wait who’s complaining about excel?
j
“An estimated 20% of genetic research papers contain errors because Excel converted some gene names into calendar dates. ” https://twitter.com/LukasSchlogl/status/1170194419049365504
“One study by a researcher at the University of Hawaii found that 88 percent of spreadsheets contain errors.” http://mrmrs.cc/writing/chaos-design/
i
hahaha
well, 2nd one is research from 1998 (good article tho, thanks, didn’t read it yet), the first one is a solvable edge case.
I’m not saying it’s perfect, but I find it amazing that it’s a codeable data editor which has been used across companies, siloses and generations and everyone is familiar with it
j
I definitely agree with you on that, just wanted to share a couple of different viewpoints. 🙂
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r
What percentage of programs do you think contain errors? 😉
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