Do you fear your data? Here’s a thought…

I’m going to say something, and it might make some people out there a little miffed, but here goes- spreadsheets can be the worst. Don’t get me wrong; I’m not talking about the data that gets shoveled into that sheet, which is the good stuff, the life-blood of any enterprise. It’s just how that data has been presented that gives me an ulcer: columns with numbers that have combined other numbers to produce numbers that mean something. To me, data in a spreadsheet can almost be as meaningless as just saying numbers over and over again. An excel wizard I am not.Read more