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Well, that's what you can expect from a press that's being fed ready-made "stories" from belief tanks. But I'm dumbstruck that a government institution would use Excel for anything more serious than the coffee club's accounting.

- Jake

If you only spend 20 minutes of the rest of your life on economics, go spend them here.

by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Thu Aug 28th, 2008 at 06:45:42 AM EST
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But I'm dumbstruck that a government institution would use Excel for anything more serious than the coffee club's accounting.

Why? Excel/VBA skills are in high demand for investment banking research jobs.

A vivid image of what should exist acts as a surrogate for reality. Pursuit of the image then prevents pursuit of the reality -- John K. Galbraith

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Aug 28th, 2008 at 06:53:22 AM EST
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Why not use Excel?

The journal Computational Statistics & Data Analysis has a whole special issue on the subject.

I am teaching a graduate course of ecologists and forestry students this year, where Xcel will be outlawed. I expect much wailing and gnashing of teeth, but I won't have it in my lab. Plus, gnuplot produces better graphics. Better than R (ducks)

by PIGL on Mon Sep 1st, 2008 at 06:51:55 AM EST
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