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And if thine data offend Excel, change it

August 4, 2021 By editor

genetic code

I’ve written numerous articles on issues with spreadsheets and why they shouldn’t play any part in a data analytics pipeline. However, trying to persuade people to stop defaulting to Excel is a thankless task.

So, it was no surprise (but very depressing) to read that geneticists changed their naming conventions to prevent Excel mangling their data.

My dismay was alleviated, partially, by a great quote in the article that originally alerted me to this travesty.

[W]e won’t be putting anything into production that relies on data supplied to us as spreadsheets.

The anti-spreadsheet manifesto in a single sentence.

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