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“There's an immediacy to a spreadsheet…”

The immediacy is you are looking at the data. What you’re going to do with it may not yet be known Is it the right data? What are the values? What are the features?

I write scripts at work and tell colleagues if they want my help they should first work it out in Excel and write an outline of the details. If they can’t do that, then the problem may not be a candidate for _script automation_.

Our pipeline is not fully automated, but that’s how I describe it. The rest is Excel Carpentry.





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