Update (1-15-2014): This paper is accepted at ICSE 2015 in the industrial track. Real spreadsheets needed From the day I got the idea of researching spreadsheets for my PhD dissertation, I needed access to ‘real life’ spreadsheets, those as really used within companies. I approached a number of companies and naively thought they would share a few […]
Using a visual language to create better spreadsheets – Bas Jansen
Bas shows a real spreadsheet that he uses in his daily work as accountant. Just 1 spreadsheet file, with 52 worksheets, but references to 70 external worksheets! 26.038 cells The process is usually as follows: A company uses an ERP system, on which the out a data warehouse for reporting. But, people grab flat tables […]
Stop blaming spreadsheets (and take a good look in the mirror)
This week, spreadsheets hit the news again, when data for a book written by economist Pikkety turned out to contain spreadsheet errors. On this, Daniele Lemire wrote a blog post warning people not to use spreadsheets for serious work. This is useless advice, let me explain why. 1) Only a fool blames their tool Heathcare.gov is built in […]
Spreadsheets: The Ununderstood Dark Matter Of IT (45 minutes version)
After a successful performance at last year’s Strata conference in London , I was invited back this year as a keynote. I talked about the omnipresence of spreadsheets in the business world and what we can learn from the success of spreadsheets. Duration 45 minutes Conference O’ Reilly Strata London Audience about 200 attendees Rating 4.4 / […]
Why give great presentations at conferences when you can get away with less?
In a few months, I’ll give my previous presentation tutorial at ICSE, but in this post I want to answer the question, why? Why should I read all your stuff about giving a good conference talk, my paper is accepted anyway? I can just copy-paste the outline and graphs from my paper and prepare in 10 minutes, […]
