We just got the news this paper is accepted at ICSE 2013 in San Francisco. The idea We know from our experience with spreadsheet users, that copy-pasting is a common way to transfer data within or between spreadsheets.However, this can be error-prone when the original data may changes and the copies get outdated. In software engineering, it […]
Tweets about my strataconf talk
https://twitter.com/jstogdill/status/253174592548528128 Coolest fucking talk at #strataconf, it is about spreadsheets and how people use them — Francis Irving (@frabcus) October 2, 2012 Felienne Hermans at Strata London 2012. #strataconf. Great talk about spreadsheets! — Ken Snyder (@yankeeinlondon) October 2, 2012 @Felienne fabulous presentation, one of the best! Thank you — Edd Wilder-James (@edd) October 2, […]
Changing science with figshare
I have been a fan of figshare since their launch a few months back, but when I ran into their founder at Strata in London yesterday, I considered this a sign I should spend a post on their great initiative. So, here goes: What is figshare? FigShare is basically a website where scientists can store their […]
TinyToCS: Exact and Near-miss Clone Detection in Spreadsheets
Our mini-paper ‘Exact and Near-miss Clone Detection in Spreadsheets’ was accepted in the first volume of TinyToCS. Tiny Transactions on Computer Science is a cute new initiative started by two researchers from the University of California in Berkeley, that aims to make computer science research more accessible to the general public. In their own words: “Tiny […]
Implication of Data Quality for Spreadsheet Analysis
by Donald P. Ballou, Harold L. Pazer, Salvatore Belardo and Barbara Klein —School of Business-State University of New York at Albany This paper describes the implication errors in spreadsheet data can have, and they kick of with some nice observations in the intro: Intro However, the obvious problem of the impact of faulty data on spreadsheet computations […]
