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And therefore doing it in a way that is NOT reproducible, easy to audit nor reliable. How many times have we seen papers and science blown because someone made
by baldfat 13y ago
And therefore doing it in a way that is NOT reproducible, easy to audit nor reliable.
How many times have we seen papers and science blown because someone made a mistake in the 50 steps they did to get their results?
CSV > Excel
- TeMPOraL 13y agoCSV > Excel in every way except the ones people working care about. I'd be hard-pressed to find a more convenient and flexible tool than Excel. Relational databases are too inflexible, toolchain just sucks, and as for the CSV manipulation - sure, if you know how to code. There's a reason people in banks, accounting, etc. keep doing everything in Excel even after proper systems are introduced. It's not because they're stupid; it's because all the "right" solutions suck hard and they need to work around the broken tools to do their job. There's a huge market opportunity here.
- schrodinger 13y agoNot understanding how you can rank CSV vs Excel. Excel is a platform that let's you easily build up complex calculations with different statistics, graphs, formatting, and a lot more. CSV is an interop file format for plain text tabular data. Yes, I'd rather a raw dump of data in CSV than XLS, but it seems like you're making a more general statement than that.