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, […]
Open letter to NWO
Background NWO is the Dutch funding agency, comparable to the NSF in the US. One of their funding categories is the Innovational Research Incentives Scheme. This scheme consists of three grants for creative talented researchers, called veni, vidi and vici, for researchers 3, 5 and 10 years away from their getting their PhD. These three grants are […]
Spreadsheets: The Ununderstood Dark Matter Of IT
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 15 minutes Conference O’ Reilly Strata London Audience about 1000 attendees Rating 4.4 / […]
