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What the other child poster said. This is 90% of my job. It’s really fun a lot of the time and absolutely brutal the rest of it. Be prepared for things like wri
by thenipper 8y ago
What the other child poster said. This is 90% of my job. It’s really fun a lot of the time and absolutely brutal the rest of it. Be prepared for things like writing code that checks the color or text styling of cells etc. people encode data in whacky ways
- MisterOctober 8y agoSeriously. I frequently get handed spreadsheets with integers typed as strings... people using strings for things that, heaven's sake, should undoubtedly be booleans... Getting the thing into usable condition takes up more time and energy than the actual analysis they desire
- synotna 8y agoI've seen that before, to "work around" locale issues, bring a European company recieving data from US companies