Last night, I dreamt I caused people who wanted to interview me to change their minds and not interview me. Then, in the same dream, I proceeded to give the worst library instruction session of y enter career.
This is what I get for reviewing today’s instruction before bed.
Suddenly, it feels like 2008 was a long time ago.
We will not use this blog as a forum for Mac vs. PC mudslinging. At home, I am a Mac user, have been for years, and I have had really good experiences with all my Mac computers. When I had a PC, I several bad experiences involving hours spent on the phone with ill-tempered Windows support techs. There’s the beginning and the end of it.
Moving on to the purpose of this post:
I had a “I’ll do it!!!” moment the last day before spring break, which resulted in me bringing home a web analytics/data analysis project. I love web analytics, but I do not love working with Excel for Mac. Most of my number crunching happens at work, on work computers. As a result, I have gotten very accustomed to, dare I say spoiled by, the elegance of Excel for Windows. Especially because we have a recent version.
I am very happy mucking about in our analytics, but wrangling with Excel for Mac is like knitting Shetland lace with broomsticks. None of the keyboard shortcuts I want are there, all of the features that have floated to the ribbon in Excel 2007 are still buried in menus, and the formula bar *floats*. This is going to take a while…
This is pretty cool: a videogame that is actually scientific research:
http://blog.eyewire.org/play-eyewire-and-contribute-to-neuroscience-research-at-mit/.
If you’d like to read more, or you’re just an aural learner, check out what NPR has to say.
Allison Ringness 