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I'm sorry, you're probably a nice person, kind to animals and children but still I kind of, well... Excel, just say NO. Friends don't let friends use excel. Ev
by harry8 10y ago
I'm sorry, you're probably a nice person, kind to animals and children but still I kind of, well...
Excel, just say NO. Friends don't let friends use excel. Ever.
Microsoft has no interest in fixing the bugs, the bugs are extremely costly. People regularly misallocate resources based on excel bugs. These screw ups happen at vast scale with hugs sums of money and worse.
Here's a couple of links I didn't read closely. Any web search will find so very many it's silly.
http://andrewgelman.com/2013/04/17/excel-bashing/ http://andrewgelman.com/2013/04/17/excel-bashing/
https://oit.utk.edu/research/documentation/Documents/ExcelStatProbs.pdf https://oit.utk.edu/research/documentation/Documents/ExcelSt...
Gnumeric is better than excel.
- harry8 10y ago"Microsoft has lots of top researchers so it’s hard for me to understand how Excel can remain so crappy." --Andrew Gelman It really is a real problem.