Comments on: Do all “analysts” use Excel? https://blog.scraperwiki.com/2012/07/do-all-analysts-use-excel/ Extract tables from PDFs and scrape the web Thu, 14 Jul 2016 16:12:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.6 By: Data Business Models | ScraperWiki Data Blog https://blog.scraperwiki.com/2012/07/do-all-analysts-use-excel/#comment-816 Wed, 27 Feb 2013 09:47:09 +0000 http://blog.scraperwiki.com/?p=758217448#comment-816 […] companies might call these people “business analysts”, and they might do all their work in Excel. The hip companies are doing “data science” with open source software before it gets cool. And […]

]]> By: Tycho01 https://blog.scraperwiki.com/2012/07/do-all-analysts-use-excel/#comment-815 Fri, 28 Sep 2012 03:24:36 +0000 http://blog.scraperwiki.com/?p=758217448#comment-815 What’s wrong with Excel if it already has VBA? It’s not the most elegant programming language, but a programming language nonetheless.

]]> By: Pat https://blog.scraperwiki.com/2012/07/do-all-analysts-use-excel/#comment-814 Tue, 11 Sep 2012 08:50:14 +0000 http://blog.scraperwiki.com/?p=758217448#comment-814 IT department won’t give me any programming environments. So a I use Excel VBA.

]]> By: Pat https://blog.scraperwiki.com/2012/07/do-all-analysts-use-excel/#comment-813 Tue, 11 Sep 2012 08:47:06 +0000 http://blog.scraperwiki.com/?p=758217448#comment-813 “Analyst” is used for a lot of government jobs that don’t have a straightforward word to describe them.

Apart from this phenomenon, the word is reasonably legitimately used for financial analysts (I think this is what your Facebook friends seemed to be talking about) as well as intelligence analysts and “business analysts” (translate real-world problems into specs for programmers).

So the word “analyst” is pretty flexible.

]]> By: Rob https://blog.scraperwiki.com/2012/07/do-all-analysts-use-excel/#comment-812 Sat, 04 Aug 2012 09:36:35 +0000 http://blog.scraperwiki.com/?p=758217448#comment-812 Any thoughts along the lines of ifttt? Or an ‘app inventor’ style front end? Well impressed with the stability of Scraperwiki at the moment.

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