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Wait till you hear about the spreadsheets researchers use... My chemist friend uses Excel files that regularly exceed 2GB of just text...
by lelandfe 2y ago
Wait till you hear about the spreadsheets researchers use... My chemist friend uses Excel files that regularly exceed 2GB of just text...
- levocardia 2y agowhich is an awful idea because some versions of Excel will, if you open a file with more than 1million rows (or ~16k columns), automatically truncate and delete the excess data! And don't even get me started on automatic date conversion.
- anthk 2y agoComputer illiteracy and shitty platforms (MSOffice is not apt for science at all) costs Scientists biliions on broken research: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02211-4?error=cookies_not_supported&code=ddc2fb47-deae-4b67-bc31-e37fac73947d https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02211-4?error=coo...