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Trials and tribulations of Covid-19 Data Reporting

Oct 5, 2020 at 7:20pm
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-54423988

I love my country - but sometimes its computer-programming skills leave a lot to be desired!
Oct 5, 2020 at 9:26pm
To be fair, it sounds like something some PHB, not a programmer, thought up. I mean, have you ever seen a programmer use a spreadsheet to handle more than a few hundred rows of data?
Oct 6, 2020 at 4:47am
but sometimes its computer-programming skills leave a lot to be desired!


Only sometimes?
Ability to use Word and Excel has been plastered on resumes and selection criteria for decades under the heading of "Complex Computer Skills'.
Everybody is a modeller! Models are everything!
The only surprise is the Excel database designer got up to ~65k lines before making a new template. 10 or 20 lines of their skills at work is usually enough to plumb the depths of the ubiquitous office guru-know-all-dominator.
Oct 6, 2020 at 1:40pm
Ive dumped tens of thousands of lines to excel many a time. It can be a little slow with a large data sets, but with the supercomputer desktop era we live in now, its not so bad.

It has limits, of course. Trying to use it as a database replacement is a giant mess.
Last edited on Oct 6, 2020 at 1:41pm
Oct 20, 2020 at 1:16pm
They used .xls files?? Sheesh!!

Everyone knows you should use .dbf files for databases.... :)
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