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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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Oh, Lord...I can't believe I'm...Submitted by Bethy (not verified) on August 24, 2006 - 1:12pm.
Oh, Lord...I can't believe I'm about to admit this... I use Excel to track stats for American Idol...hey, I'm probably the only one who can tell you that when there are only three people left, the person who sings first is probably going to be leaving. 5 out of 5 (in the US version anyway) went out that way. I also have used it to track the results of "Dial Idol" and analyze the stats over the course of the season, predicting who will be going home each week. I've been pretty darn accurate. » POSTED IN:
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