I only despise academia for their insistence to gauge value on the number of published papers. Not because I needed my thesis to be published before obtaining my PhD.
My thesis had more value than the next 7 papers I published before I left academia.
Haha, I was more angry I had to fat thumb through excel trying to do things for me instead of just coding it out. I think it’s good for the kids to see people experiment and mess up a bit though because it shows them it’s ok to tinker. We got it in the end and they told me it helped! :)
Can you believe this guy ladies and gentlemen? He’s got his own news show, he’s got a normal name. You can tell our parents started with naming with him, oh Michael, I bet they had that name planned before they were even pregnant I bet.
I have a process that use python to read some excel files from the commercial team and then the result feed a dashboard. Every week the assistant of the director write me saying that the dashboard didn’t update correctly, I look what happens and everytime it was the commercial people messing with the excel where it was already told hundred of times they should not mess with anything except their corresponding cells. Next week I’m learning how to block the file except the cells they should edit.
I used to teach Excel at an adult vocational college. When I moved into the corporate world, I quickly learned why the University of Hawaii’s research found that well over half of spreadsheets have critical errors. Even the people treated as Excel experts were often clueless.
I’m not saying that spreadsheets should be banned from the workplace, but they definitely need to be very tightly controlled.
Oh, and always, always lock formula cells, even in sheets that never leave your control. :) If possible, make use of Excel’s native data forms, too.
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