One story that still haunts me about the culture onboard the submarine. We were dropping the trash and one requirement is that an officer be present. I was told to go get an officer. I found the Chief Engineer sitting…
There's one part of the article that I think deserves more attention. I see Netflix in a big disjointed mess of entertainment. I've got Netflix and then someone will tell me about something very interesting on Hulu,…
YUP! And too often a company claiming to have something better than Excel isn't a direct equivalent. It's a way to market their whizzbang solution. Domo was claiming it could get companies off of spreadsheets. But it…
Which never should have been the default. I don't want to be included in something that I never asked to be part of, and then have to put in the effort to get out. This is one of the things that is so upsetting: most of…
This depends on the evidence you want to highlight. There are a lot of truly amazing things people use Excel for. And they work. There's no denying that.
WOW! Excellent perspective. And I've never heard the term "citizen programmer" before. You're right. "I did it myself" and "I understand how it works" are definitely undervalued. And that plays into a lot of the…
Matt, I'm curious to know why? If a person has jumped through hoops to say they don't want to be tracked, why look for ways to still do it? It's like putting up curtains to keep people from looking in my window, but…
I was with you until you made it political. I'm a member of a minority group and I'm fed up with wokeness. People like John McWhorter have described wokeness as a religion. That's a characterization that I agree with,…
Fine. But when I opt out I want to be truly 100% opted out. Actually, I'd prefer the option to opt IN if I want to be tracked. I think that's the real issue here. I know people who love targeted advertising. Great. Let…
This is very different from the slimy tactics around our privacy and data.
I agree with you about the 2 scenarios. My concern, though, isn't about potentially pages and pages of explanations. It's more about the fact that I spend time opting out of that kind of stuff and some how still get the…
BRAVO
You've got all the answers about a company in Chicago in 2005-2008 and how it should have been run. Why didn't you jump in and help us?
How do you have so many answers to situations you haven't been in? Do I need to say it again? My Excel skills were necessary because of garbage in databases. I could sit at my desk; extract a data-dump of 50k rows of…
One thing I'm thankful for is my Excel skill. Why do I even have Excel skill? Because of the garbage reports and data that I was pulling out of databases. I spent YEARS exporting data-dumps and cleansing them in Excel…
See. You've got answers to something that you haven't asked a single question about. But in your judgement the company should have had the right developer on staff. That's what's frustrating about these anti-Excel…
Who's going to pay to train a Customer Service Rep, Admin Assistant, Sales Assistant or Warehouse Manager to do Python when there's Excel? Get into the world of the Excel user. Some of us do learn coding. But generally…
Again. What's the comparable alternative? This is so frustrating because I've worked in small departments in an international company. Our problems were too small to get consistent, needed help from IT and we weren't…
Excel bashing is easy but, where's a truly comparable alternative? - Alteryx at $5000/year/user? - A database that requires specialized skill or going through a DBA for every little need? - Salesforce? It's hell to…
I live in Portland, too. And we do need help. But facial recognition is unreliable. I'd hate to be the one who's misidentified but, overzealous law enforcement keeps insisting it's me. Or, maybe I'm shaking hands with…
Your co-worker couldn't tell you about doing a join in Excel's Power Query?
One vote of massive respect is after Jack Dorsey was on the show and Joe's audience gave him hell for letting Jack get away with BS. Joe admitted that he didn't know enough about the topic. So, Joe scheduled a do-over…
I like Joe Rogan and I agree. It's more conversational and that's what I like.
LOL!
I agree! A lot of what's going on with data is the low-cost ease of intimate access to targeted people. Thus, we get constantly pestered and then it's our job to figure out how to get peace from stuff that we didn't ask…
One story that still haunts me about the culture onboard the submarine. We were dropping the trash and one requirement is that an officer be present. I was told to go get an officer. I found the Chief Engineer sitting…
There's one part of the article that I think deserves more attention. I see Netflix in a big disjointed mess of entertainment. I've got Netflix and then someone will tell me about something very interesting on Hulu,…
YUP! And too often a company claiming to have something better than Excel isn't a direct equivalent. It's a way to market their whizzbang solution. Domo was claiming it could get companies off of spreadsheets. But it…
Which never should have been the default. I don't want to be included in something that I never asked to be part of, and then have to put in the effort to get out. This is one of the things that is so upsetting: most of…
This depends on the evidence you want to highlight. There are a lot of truly amazing things people use Excel for. And they work. There's no denying that.
WOW! Excellent perspective. And I've never heard the term "citizen programmer" before. You're right. "I did it myself" and "I understand how it works" are definitely undervalued. And that plays into a lot of the…
Matt, I'm curious to know why? If a person has jumped through hoops to say they don't want to be tracked, why look for ways to still do it? It's like putting up curtains to keep people from looking in my window, but…
I was with you until you made it political. I'm a member of a minority group and I'm fed up with wokeness. People like John McWhorter have described wokeness as a religion. That's a characterization that I agree with,…
Fine. But when I opt out I want to be truly 100% opted out. Actually, I'd prefer the option to opt IN if I want to be tracked. I think that's the real issue here. I know people who love targeted advertising. Great. Let…
This is very different from the slimy tactics around our privacy and data.
I agree with you about the 2 scenarios. My concern, though, isn't about potentially pages and pages of explanations. It's more about the fact that I spend time opting out of that kind of stuff and some how still get the…
BRAVO
You've got all the answers about a company in Chicago in 2005-2008 and how it should have been run. Why didn't you jump in and help us?
How do you have so many answers to situations you haven't been in? Do I need to say it again? My Excel skills were necessary because of garbage in databases. I could sit at my desk; extract a data-dump of 50k rows of…
One thing I'm thankful for is my Excel skill. Why do I even have Excel skill? Because of the garbage reports and data that I was pulling out of databases. I spent YEARS exporting data-dumps and cleansing them in Excel…
See. You've got answers to something that you haven't asked a single question about. But in your judgement the company should have had the right developer on staff. That's what's frustrating about these anti-Excel…
Who's going to pay to train a Customer Service Rep, Admin Assistant, Sales Assistant or Warehouse Manager to do Python when there's Excel? Get into the world of the Excel user. Some of us do learn coding. But generally…
Again. What's the comparable alternative? This is so frustrating because I've worked in small departments in an international company. Our problems were too small to get consistent, needed help from IT and we weren't…
Excel bashing is easy but, where's a truly comparable alternative? - Alteryx at $5000/year/user? - A database that requires specialized skill or going through a DBA for every little need? - Salesforce? It's hell to…
I live in Portland, too. And we do need help. But facial recognition is unreliable. I'd hate to be the one who's misidentified but, overzealous law enforcement keeps insisting it's me. Or, maybe I'm shaking hands with…
Your co-worker couldn't tell you about doing a join in Excel's Power Query?
One vote of massive respect is after Jack Dorsey was on the show and Joe's audience gave him hell for letting Jack get away with BS. Joe admitted that he didn't know enough about the topic. So, Joe scheduled a do-over…
I like Joe Rogan and I agree. It's more conversational and that's what I like.
LOL!
I agree! A lot of what's going on with data is the low-cost ease of intimate access to targeted people. Thus, we get constantly pestered and then it's our job to figure out how to get peace from stuff that we didn't ask…