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So many spreadsheets.

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[–] virku@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Computer engineer checking in. Same here!

[–] EditsHisComments@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Hopefully you utilize Python instead of Excel for data management. Unless you have non-engineers or tech-illiterate people on your team or adjacent teams lol

[–] ViatorOmnium@piefed.social 6 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Why not both. I once wrote an abomination that read and wrote data into a Google Spreadsheet, interacting with formulas in the spreadsheet in the process.

[–] iii@mander.xyz 3 points 2 days ago

I hope there's a place worse than hell

[–] EditsHisComments@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)
[–] virku@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Oh Lord. Before I found power bi 15 or so years ago I made interactive speeadsheets that did a lot of querying directly towards sql based on a set of input cells. Did a lot of crunching on the data merging data fetched from different database etc before presenting them in their own sheets. The worst part is that it was a huge leap from what we did earlier. Then I would write sql queries and dump the result to Excel every time management needed data.

[–] virku@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

I mostly use sql for data management stuff through c# .NET. But there is a lot of Excel and power bi towards the numbers people.