tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2198942534740642384.post9210757333737918368..comments2023-10-24T03:16:41.009-07:00Comments on Econometrics Beat: Dave Giles' Blog: Spreadsheet ErrorsDave Gileshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05389606956062019445noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2198942534740642384.post-15549771591677854482017-09-29T10:28:34.071-07:002017-09-29T10:28:34.071-07:00Yes John, I'm now retired and living in L'...Yes John, I'm now retired and living in L'Amable. Dave Gileshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05389606956062019445noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2198942534740642384.post-64242279047506353372017-09-29T07:36:56.090-07:002017-09-29T07:36:56.090-07:00Nice.
If you are actually in L'Amable, it'...Nice.<br /><br />If you are actually in L'Amable, it's not so far from Ottawa and a chance to compare notes with others who share your interests.<br /><br />nashjc _at_ uottawa.ca<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2198942534740642384.post-68691645784342490552016-09-13T11:55:40.404-07:002016-09-13T11:55:40.404-07:00Whoops!!!!! :-) Fixed, thanks.Whoops!!!!! :-) Fixed, thanks.Dave Gileshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05389606956062019445noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2198942534740642384.post-13190505392438788112016-09-13T11:19:32.013-07:002016-09-13T11:19:32.013-07:00Heh heh you wrote "... why would I pay big B...Heh heh you wrote "... why would I pay big BUGS for commercial software..." Freudian slip? cellocgwhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14770145678802745861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2198942534740642384.post-91237588274340566812016-09-10T08:01:55.242-07:002016-09-10T08:01:55.242-07:00I never understood why highly educated people woul...I never understood why highly educated people would use excel for anything besides perhaps very basic tasks. In fact, any program that is meant to be run by user interface and not centered around writing code is a very bad choice. STATA and MATLAB are costly, I understand, but the amount of time you save using them for publication purposes is gigantic. Be it just out of laziness for table and plot formats that you have to code just once!<br /><br />If not, as you said, why not R? It's free and there even exists forums, videos and courses, either cheap or free, if you need to learn it. Damn it, there is no excuse for using excel or something similar in this day and age!<br /><br />Btw, how is R for microeconometrics? From what I gather, macroeconomists use it more often than microeconomists who seem to prefer STATA.Stéphanenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2198942534740642384.post-18691260841587984172016-09-10T05:42:11.983-07:002016-09-10T05:42:11.983-07:00Maybe - but you should still check my earlier post...Maybe - but you should still check my earlier post and the well-documented algorithmic flaws in Excel.Dave Gileshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05389606956062019445noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2198942534740642384.post-22552325409846246742016-09-09T15:21:33.573-07:002016-09-09T15:21:33.573-07:00The "errors" reported by the genomics st...The "errors" reported by the genomics study are due to researcher laziness, not to the software per se. Any veteran Excel user has experienced the annoying General default format, and should know about changing the format to Text. I suspect these lists of genome names were copied and pasted into Excel without changing the format, and the user simply didn't bother to proof the list. I'm not a big fan of Excel, but this kind of thing is very different from calculation errors due to second-rate algorithms, or even the problems caused by complicated formulas.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com