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How a Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet From Hell Slowed Williams' F1 Cars For Years (www.thedrive.com)
submitted 8 months ago by boem to c/technology
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[–] Olap 62 points 8 months ago (27 children)

Pretty much all data heavy organisations use excel VERY heavily. And when nobody understands the model within them any more, they need retiring and are usually replaced with... Excel! This time with even more tabs and columns. To replace these things with computer models risks repeating the same problem the original sheet has: bus factors and complexities are hard, more so even in python/r than excel sadly. Maybe one day something will trump it, but that day is not today

[–] jaybone 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You could use a database, and SQL. Or is that crazy talk?

[–] herrvogel 3 points 8 months ago

Yes. Your boss needs to be able to double click on an email attachment otherwise it's like you never even did anything.

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