The disdain for spreadsheets comes from people who don’t understand data organization, or people who do.
Tabular data? Good.
Schemaless? Unstructured? Probably maintained by eleventy-four random sales people and an account? Being given to me like it’s a gift and expecting me to just magic it into some reporting system? On a recurring basis? No. Please God no.
I can be trusted to use a spreadsheet for my things that I don’t share. Other people need to use something that will yell at them when they give it malformed gibberish.
Oh, and executable logic doesn’t belong in the same context as data. That shit needs to be able to be told apart from the data.
The disdain for spreadsheets comes from people who don’t understand data organization, or people who do.
Tabular data? Good.
Schemaless? Unstructured? Probably maintained by eleventy-four random sales people and an account? Being given to me like it’s a gift and expecting me to just magic it into some reporting system? On a recurring basis? No. Please God no.
I can be trusted to use a spreadsheet for my things that I don’t share. Other people need to use something that will yell at them when they give it malformed gibberish.
Oh, and executable logic doesn’t belong in the same context as data. That shit needs to be able to be told apart from the data.