I started out with Excel in early school classes, but lol only

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Here's a handy rule of thumb: If you have to use Excel at work, you're working a brainlet job.

Also, Excel has nothing to do with /sci/ence.

>>9168135
I just started work for these guys
http://halllabs.com

Not sure what you qualify as 'brainlet' and learning and using Matlab has been a mainstay of /sci/ threads for generations going back to the stone age when we accessed the internet by campfire

>>9168130
>>9168135
Excel is very useful if you know it well. It's essentially a high level programming language. It is also a lot faster to build a project and do general work than something like MATLAB. Spending excess time doing something in MATLAB when it can easily be done in Excel is just dumb. Ideally, more intensive work that needs to be calculated quickly would be done in MATLAB and even more intensive work would be programmed from the ground up in C++ or something.

>>9168130

Keep it simple, stupid.

>>9168152
you're probably interning with the management team then, not the R&D people

>le ebin circlejerk

Excel is actually pretty usefull if you have a mangable amount of data on your hands and need to manually work on it somehow. It allows for an easy input and easy simple data manipulations.

That being said, if I'd have to do any sort of statistical analysis and my boss would say "We use excel here.", I'd convert the excel file to a csv and do it in R or Python instead.

>>9168540
real analysts use tab delimited text, not csv

>>9168775
>tabs
>not spaces

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>intern at NASA center
>plot data in a .csv using Excel
>show data in a meeting
>mocked for using Excel by Nasa engineers

Assholes.

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>>9168135
>Here's a handy rule of thumb

...If you like being unemployed.

You've got to know how to use every kind of technology you know, perhaps not being very fine on every one of them, but being able to adapt yourself

Also >>9168135 is retarded, excel is fine

Just download gnu octave

>>9169091
You deserve it. If you were autistic enough then you would have explored hundreds of data presentation software and long ago moved away from excel. You are a normie, get out, REEEE.

>tfw I'm finishing my PhD dissertation using Excel and Word