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Microsoft fixes the Excel feature that was wrecking scientific data
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this post was submitted on 21 Oct 2023
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Exactly. Like personally I’d rather do libreoffice for data entry, spit out a csv, and slap that into an R based analyzer, that’s because I have an irrational hate for excel’s graphs compared to ggplot2. I do use excel a lot though in my job because fuck it it just works for basically everything