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Microsoft fixes the Excel feature that was wrecking scientific data (www.theverge.com)
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[–] radix@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Excel does 1000 different things, and for 998 of them, there's at least one better option.

The two things Excel does best: 1) be accessible to everyone from the greenest high schooler to the most senior IT admin. 2) do those 1000 different things at least somewhat competently.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

Exactly. Like personally I’d rather do libreoffice for data entry, spit out a csv, and slap that into an R based analyzer, that’s because I have an irrational hate for excel’s graphs compared to ggplot2. I do use excel a lot though in my job because fuck it it just works for basically everything