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Agreed. The `raw` data collection should be transparent and in a format that is not locked into Excel spreadsheets.
by hardboiled 9y ago
Agreed. The `raw` data collection should be transparent and in a format that is not locked into Excel spreadsheets.
- auxym 9y agoI'm no big fan of excel, but the modern xlsx format is "open", in that it's documented (though maybe not perfectly). It certainly is possible to read data from it using a variety of open source packages, from LO Calc to libraries like pyxl.
- baldfat 9y agoIt's not that it's open it is that all the steps are seen and can be repeated. Excel is just manual labor without seeing how the person took the raw data and got to their conclusion.