> -----Original Message----- > From: C. Titus Brown [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: 05 May 2016 14:41 > To: Waldman, Simon <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Discuss] Word and PowerPoint "all wrong"? > > > The fact of the matter is, Excel has been demonstrated time and > > > again to be not just inefficient for scientific analysis but usually > > > out-and- > out wrong. > > > > [citation needed] > > Here's one that has had a reasonably significant impact on biology: > > http://bmcbioinformatics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2105-5- > 80
Interesting, thank you. I'm not sure that's so much "Excel is wrong" as "Excel was allowed to make a guess at a data type, and guessed wrong" - but it certainly has the same effect for the unwary. Worth being aware of. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org
