bjoerns
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CTO and Founding Partner at xlwings.org. We help you excel with Excel. Night-time blogger at https://distributedpython.com
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Comment · 7 years ago
I've built a mobile airpollution sensor together with a few other parents and their kids at my 8-year old son's primary school in London. Air pollution is a big topic as the school is right next to a busy road, a lot of children are suffering from asthma and Islington has been pretty useless in collecting/publishing data. So we've started taking things in our own hands and built a handful of raspberry pi based monitors in class rooms, the playground and children take it with them on their school run. geo-tagged data is automatically uploaded to little influxdb/grafana based web service wheneve the pi has a wifi connection. Makes it an interesting project for kids to look and interpret charts and stuff as well. Currently we're measuring PM2.5/PM10, temp and humidity only, haven't had the time yet to look into NOx sensors yet...
Comment · 8 years ago
I quite like daff (have used it for diffing Excel sheets):
Comment · 8 years ago
True. But isn't it a bit too easy to just tell people to stop using Excel (which they won't do anyway) instead of giving them something to help them solve their problems _within_ the Excel/spreadsheet world?
Comment · 8 years ago
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Comment · 8 years ago
great story. I used to train on a C152 and knew a few guys at the local aerodrome who had done ferry flights from the US to the UK. Which is something I (as a shitty weekend VFR pilot) have the uttermost respect for. But that story about getting it from Oskosh to Gaborone, wow.
Comment · 8 years ago
We have a tool that makes Git understand Excel workbook files: https://www.xltrail.com
Is that something that might help?
Comment · 8 years ago
Ok, here's he full story: We have a product (https://www.xltrail.com) that makes git diff and all that work with Excel workbooks. So you get a lot more out of it than dropbox/drive/sharepoint etc as you get to inspect content changes.
90% of our clients/prospects are in financial services (heavy workbooks with VBA, think applications, not spreadsheets) but today I spoke to a prospect from a different industry which made me think that there might be people outside banks, hedge funds going down the same path.
Comment · 8 years ago
In general, yes. However, from my own experience, there is a (small and industry-specific) subset of "Excel developers", especially in investment banks, hedge funds etc that know both.