by Oz du Soleil | Jan 4, 2015 | Spreadsheet Development, Spreadsheet Tidiness
My friend Mike asked, “is Excel for the common man?” The answer is yes, but I had to find a good example for someone who’s recently retired and has no workplace need for Excel. But, wherever there’s data, there’s opportunity to use Excel....
by Oz du Soleil | Oct 28, 2014 | Data Management, Excel Geekdom
THE PINOCCHIO THEORY In 1977 Bootsy Collins released the hit song Pinocchio Theory. Its main warning is: If you fake the funk, your nose will grow There are a lot of long noses in the data world–specifically with folks who continually bash Excel and write its...
by Oz du Soleil | Dec 2, 2013 | Data Integrity, Data Management, Excel Geekdom, Spreadsheet Development, Spreadsheet Tidiness
October 2012, I posted a mild complaint about the ability to build a calculator in Excel and then publish online via ExcelWebApp. The Excel piece was easy. The WebApp piece was disappointing but was infinitely better than Google’s version. Yesterday a friend...
by Oz du Soleil | Jul 10, 2013 | Case Studies, Data Management, Excel Geekdom
Rachel Esralew and I are leading Sriracha Smackdown Round II: The True Sensation. This will be a Google Hangout where many of us will sample and rate the joyful joy of various brands of sriracha. ♦♦ One night I stumbled across Rachel’s...
by Oz du Soleil | May 13, 2013 | Excel Geekdom
This is so exciting, I almost put a cuss word in the subject line! This deserves a cigar so, please join me. For the past few months I’ve explored possibilities with Excel and the internet. I even took a PHP/MySQL course and what I discovered is that being in...