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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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 You want nerdy & obsessive,...Submitted by Chris Hayes (not verified) on August 22, 2006 - 4:23am.
You want nerdy & obsessive, I think I can give you that... I use excel for just about anything that's a lot of data & comparisons. Particularly a decision process I learned in my AI classes in college - how to pick the best from a large set of options. It's great for this because of the simple list filtering & sorting options (and obviously the formulas - who doesn't use the formulas?) I've used this thing to decide on everything from which computer to buy to what apartments I should look into renting. I've even gone so far as to set up a chart of girls I could date, to see which one I should 'scientifically' be pursuing. The results were actually not far off the mark from my instincts... but it was still good to be sure. » POSTED IN:
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