Well, damn. I only know Excel. Kind of feel like I've wasted some time now.
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Sorry, we really need someone that knows Excel for this job. We have your contact info
Damn, Eternity gives you an hour?
Charges me double rate after 30 minutes.
People still use Excel?
Only every business you dont think about, and all the ones you do.
Excel is my daily driver for basic data analysis and graph making. For more complicated tasks I use R.
Mechanical engineer here who could not live without it. And every meeting I go to, we are presented with Excel charts in one form or another. I love it tbh.
what do you use excel for in your job? (i don’t know anything about mechanical engineering)
A few main ones: either to list out current & upcoming projects wrt cost & time (the logistical/budget parts) and also columns to sort out things like a pressure, temperature, volume, voltage, current, surface area, etc, depending on what you’re working on. My degree is ME, but I also work a lot of electrical projects so the ability to sort all of these properties out in an easy to read chart is immensely helpful.
What do you use? The POS that is Google sheets? It can't even import a CSV right.
Excel is great at manipulating low amounts of data and building functions and queries without any programming needed.

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