Microsoft Excel, every mention
8 scenes (2015) · ← back to Microsoft Excel
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Microsoft Excel comes up
Liz Crawford, Birchbox // Data Science & Analytics at Birchbox (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
- ▶ 6:31 Liz Crawford The way we actually worked this out is, like, this is an Excel spreadsheet. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:04 unnamed speaker Were you just pulling data from multiple sources and just throwing them in Excel? 2 times in the scene
Anthony Deighton, Qlik: Top 10 Requirements For Visual Analytics (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
- ▶ 12:39 Anthony Deighton Um, to, ah, you know, it's not that they desire export to Excel for some fundamental reason, they make good with that when they have no better alternative.
- ▶ 20:32 Anthony Deighton So what would happen in a traditional, like an Excel, right, is you'd get a scatterplot with 8000 points on it, which would be like a big blue dot.
Anand Sanwal, CB Insights // What's Next? (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
- ▶ 20:03 Anand Sanwal Yeah, I mean, I think the thing, you know, we thought, because we're sort of data geeks, we thought, you know, everybody likes to download data in Excel or R or whatever and work with it. 2 times in the scene
Bob Muglia, Snowflake // Navigating The Cloud (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
- ▶ 20:08 Bob Muglia And one of the key things that we do, we're a, Snowflake is a traditional, in the sense, it is a SQL data warehouse.
Howie Liu, Airtable // Founding Airtable (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
- ▶ 14:49 Jeroen Janssens Um, you have shown how to manage data, uh, but Excel is not only used to manage data, you can also, even though I think you shouldn't use Excel for that, but, uh, people of course also use formulas, right, to quickly sum a list of numbers,… 3 times in the scene
Ryan Smith, Qualtrics // The Qualtrics Story // Data Driven NYC (FirstMark Capital)
- ▶ 32:27 Ryan Smith And, you know, at some point, adding a bunch of more features to excel, um, becomes diminishing and actually hurts the product.