The core reasons for the success of spreadsheets are their immediate feedback system and their continuous deployment model. Spreadsheets are enormously successful. It is estimated that 95% of all US companies use spreadsheets for financial reporting (1). In the eighties spreadsheets became “the medium, the method, the tool, and the language of financial analysis” (2) This success raises the […]
Project #tweetprop
On January 23 I will defend my dissertation. In the Netherlands, this is mainly a ceremonial thing. The 8 committee members review your thesis beforehand and you are allowed to print it before the defense. As Dutch tradition has it, you will not only be defending your dissertation, but also a number of propositions. Some […]
Data Clone Detection and Visualization in Spreadsheets
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within or between spreadsheets.However, this can be error-prone when the original data may changes and the copies get outdated.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 […]
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 […]
