Comments on: Excel as the iPod of Downloaded Data http://blog.gobansaor.com/2009/10/25/excel-as-the-ipod-of-downloaded-data/ A country datasmith. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:24:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: microETL – the ultimate datasmithing tool? | Gobán Saor http://blog.gobansaor.com/2009/10/25/excel-as-the-ipod-of-downloaded-data/#comment-6875 Fri, 29 Apr 2011 15:08:16 +0000 http://blog.gobansaor.com/?p=806#comment-6875 [...] allows me to bring the beautiful world of set logic to user-centric Excel world of functional programming (yes, all you Excel jocks, you’re functional programmers). It also brings some nice [...]

]]> By: Really Simple Systems | Gobán Saor http://blog.gobansaor.com/2009/10/25/excel-as-the-ipod-of-downloaded-data/#comment-6857 Tue, 19 Apr 2011 13:43:38 +0000 http://blog.gobansaor.com/?p=806#comment-6857 [...] The advice for those who either don’t have the money to commission changes (or who wish to avoid such costs) is to fit in with the package’s way of doing things (which as most will be “industry best practices” can often be a good thing) or use “off-line” processes to handle the exceptions. In some such cases a bespoke professionally delivered software solution might be the result; but for many the more usual “solution” to to those out-of-scope processes is “Simple!, you could easily so that in Excel“. Yet another recruit for the Excel -driven world of Shadow IT. [...]

]]> By: Excel in Data | Gobán Saor http://blog.gobansaor.com/2009/10/25/excel-as-the-ipod-of-downloaded-data/#comment-6228 Tue, 02 Nov 2010 17:44:33 +0000 http://blog.gobansaor.com/?p=806#comment-6228 [...] process of data shaping and the need to simply “get things done” led to the evolution of “shadow IT”, usually involving Excel is some form or another. Although many attempts have been made to control and tame this wild-west of data creation and [...]

]]> By: Tom Gleeson http://blog.gobansaor.com/2009/10/25/excel-as-the-ipod-of-downloaded-data/#comment-5699 Fri, 05 Feb 2010 22:30:51 +0000 http://blog.gobansaor.com/?p=806#comment-5699 Thanks Doug

For speedier updates on xLite http://www.gobansaor.com/introducing-xlite page has an RSS feed. I’ve not had time in the last month or so to work on xLite but have set time aside this month, so keep a watchful eye.

Tom

]]> By: Doug http://blog.gobansaor.com/2009/10/25/excel-as-the-ipod-of-downloaded-data/#comment-5698 Fri, 05 Feb 2010 21:44:25 +0000 http://blog.gobansaor.com/?p=806#comment-5698 Finally signed up for the email alerts on blogs so I don’t have to worry about when you give your next installment about xLite, which I haven’t played with yet, but everything I read sounds great and hoping to do so soon.

This is one of my favorite reads!

I’m with you on Pivot Tables and “cold dead hands” comment.

Doug

]]> By: greg kramer http://blog.gobansaor.com/2009/10/25/excel-as-the-ipod-of-downloaded-data/#comment-5580 Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:40:09 +0000 http://blog.gobansaor.com/?p=806#comment-5580 Yes, I nominate Tom for president of the world’s datasmiths!

(And everyone in the world is going to be a datasmith eventually, ergo…..)

]]> By: Tom Gleeson http://blog.gobansaor.com/2009/10/25/excel-as-the-ipod-of-downloaded-data/#comment-5579 Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:10:46 +0000 http://blog.gobansaor.com/?p=806#comment-5579 And from what I’ve seen so far of PowerPivot, the “iPod” has gotten considerably more powerful :)

Tom

]]> By: Stray__Cat http://blog.gobansaor.com/2009/10/25/excel-as-the-ipod-of-downloaded-data/#comment-5578 Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:05:12 +0000 http://blog.gobansaor.com/?p=806#comment-5578 I can’t agree more with your view. It is exactly for the reasons you have described that I built Viney@rd.

]]> By: SQLite as the MP3 of data « Gobán Saor http://blog.gobansaor.com/2009/10/25/excel-as-the-ipod-of-downloaded-data/#comment-5466 Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:35:24 +0000 http://blog.gobansaor.com/?p=806#comment-5466 [...] many ask why SQLite? (Many others ask why Excel?  but “sin scéal eile”, that’s another discussion – Excel as the iPod of Downloaded Data.) Those that question my use of SQLite tend to cluster into four [...]

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