The Importance of Excel

[Dave Haan]

James Kwak catches up with the Whale
http://baselinescenario.com/2013/02/09/the-importance-of-excel/
but see also the follow-on discussion at HackerNews
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5198187

 

[Daniel Duffy]

The new model “operated through a series of Excel spreadsheets, which had to be completed manually, by a process of copying and pasting data from one spreadsheet to another.”

You can use computers to automate this process. Work-flow automation.

 

[Dave Haan]

Back in the news this past week, after a grad student debunked in part thru spreadsheet error
http://blogs.ft.com/gavyndavies/2013/04/19/how-much-of-reinhartrogoff-has-survived/

 

[alain]

good post regarding same thing

http://blog.fperez.org/2013/04/literate-computing-and-computational.html

 

[Canuck]

A more light hearted look at excel and its relevance in an age of big data:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22213219