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With spreadsheets a lot of steps needlessly require human transcription (cut/paste, typing and so on). So there is a casual relation.
by jmount 12y ago
With spreadsheets a lot of steps needlessly require human transcription (cut/paste, typing and so on). So there is a casual relation.
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- acqq 12y agoSteps require "human transcription"? I think you've got a wrong term, and if you mistype the data you have on the paper when making a spreadsheet I don't see why you wouldn't when doing the same typing using your text editor.
- jmount 12y ago"Manual intervention" would have been better. The steps involved can be copying and pasting, selecting a range (very nasty if you miss and don't notice), and even typing data from another source. Compare that to something like R where you typically load the data (even from a URL) with command like "read.table()" and most operations are implicitly over the whole data frame (no copying of data from paper required).
- coldtea 12y agoSomebody has to type the data you loaded.