If limited to just "seeing" the contents I would argue that is fine, although you do not need Excel to do that. Very expensive and bloated for just looking at some columns. Can be done better with better/smaller software.
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Olivia Guest | Ολίβια Γκεστ Retweeted Dorothy Bishop
What people seem to do is ENTER the data in Excel. This is disturbing. Please do not do that.https://twitter.com/deevybee/status/1031151509965352960 …
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Dorothy Bishop @deevybeeReplying to @ProfDataAargh. Are you not aware that sometimes a human being needs to intervene to input data? Not all data comes from a 'data collection program'. Sorry, but I've had enough of being told what I know this morning and I am going back to my data analysis (in R).3 replies 2 retweets 0 likes -
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How should people do data entry? Assuming the data initially exists in some noncomputerised form?
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I don't know — but it worries me ppl use Excel. Many useful replies further down the thread. In my idea world, we would move away from MS products and we would also not use tools that are bloated for something as simple as just typing in values that could be stored as raw text.
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🐸 @frogglestonReplying to @o_guest @realMingChia and 2 othersYes, it makes the most sense to teach that Excel is OK for producing tabular representations, and that there are bad ways of doing this, but if you need to do anything else, export to CSV: https://datacarpentry.org/spreadsheet-ecology-lesson/ …1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Olivia Guest | Ολίβια Γκεστ Retweeted Chris Cole
Also see, refreshing recommendation:https://twitter.com/drchriscole/status/1031495590054711296?s=19 …
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Olivia Guest | Ολίβια Γκεστ Retweeted Thiago Britto-Borges
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Last two are most definitely not spreadsheet software!
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Olivia Guest | Ολίβια Γκεστ Retweeted Michael H (Dr H)
Another recommendation:https://twitter.com/mrhunsaker/status/1031506310376841216?s=19 …
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Olivia Guest | Ολίβια Γκεστ Retweeted ODI Tech
And more info here on chameleon:https://twitter.com/ODILabs/status/1031506383475290112?s=19 …
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ODI Tech @ODILabsReplying to @drchriscole @froggleston and 5 othersHello! Comma Chameleon was/is a proof of concept, and has since been developed into a proper tool by our Australian Network, under another name: https://theodi.org.au/data-curator/ (note to self: really should update the CC homepage and github...)1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
Olivia Guest | Ολίβια Γκεστ Retweeted Open Climate Data
One more to think about:https://twitter.com/openclimatedata/status/1031522087901515776?s=19 …
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Should I write this up as a blog post? I'm just not sure because I don't do manually data entry almost ever so might not be best situated. At the same time there's pervasive bad practice...
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I would support the blog
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