• MissJinx@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    dude you can hate but 80% of “data” still.on excel. I’m in my third global company and people still control things on excel. and 5% power bi (some from excel) hahahahaha

    • djmikeale@feddit.dk
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      38 minutes ago

      Yep, that’s true haha.

      It’s perhaps not so much Excel, as much as it’s just the symptom of a lot of bigger issues: working without version control, without column validation or access control, limited documentation (not necessarily better in data warehouse but at least the functionality is easily accessible), limited automated testing, etc etc.

      If only they could keep their data for themselves, then ok. but no no, we have to ingest it, and do work on top of it in dwh, and it just breaks so often due to a variety of different stuff.

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      5 hours ago

      Wait you mean your organization doesn’t use some ludicrously expensive hosted database solution or 3 to aggregate data then instead of natively working with the data in that database it gets exported and transformed on a local machine which may or may not havd backups then ask the database people about weird data quirks coming from the local transformations performed on the data