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Open Thread: How are you using Excel?
Merlin Mann | Aug 22 2006
Yesterday, I mentioned I'd been talking with someone who's looking at interesting things people are doing with Microsoft Excel. I talked to her again yesterday, and with her official okey-dokey, I'll virtually introduce Tralee Pearce (*waves*), a reporter from Toronto's Globe & Mail whom you might remember from a very swell article about the Hipster PDA. So, by request -- and to help Tralee with fleshing out her fun-sounding article -- I hope you all will jump in here: What kind of cool, novel, and non-obvious stuff are you doing with Excel? What's the wildest, most obsessive, most nerdy thing you ever saw someone do with our favorite spreadsheet program? 119 Comments
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 I frequently deal with datasets...Submitted by E (not verified) on August 22, 2006 - 4:02pm.
I frequently deal with datasets that are too big for Excel, unfortunately. But I still use it almost daily. I used the random number functions and lots of equations to run a Monte Carlo statistical error analysis on my data once. I've also used it to choreograph dance pieces! I would assign a fill color to each dancer and plot out where they were supposed to be on the stage during each measure of music. Each cell on the spreadsheet was an "area" of the stage. Now that was convoluted. » POSTED IN:
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