I’ve been adjusting my studies to focus on data. Right now, I’ve working on mastering Power BI, a Microsoft data analytics tool. Yesterday, as I’m finally starting to dive deep, I had a moment of sadness. I remember a role where this tool didn’t exist. I was cleaning up data from a multitude of sources, just me, Excel, and a wee bit of Visual Basic. And I had to tweak the process every month. The powerful tools in Power BI, and Power Query, would’ve been so helpful. I’m looking forward to what I can do with these modern tools.
Power BI
I’m going to look at this tool to update myself on how much things have changed since I first ran a set of punch cards through a tabulation program.
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Powerful.
I wonder if errors are even harder to detect than in spreadsheets and possibly more likely to be multiplied. Any thoughts Carl?
Power BI has many tools to track down the various types of errors, but I’m still just learning this tool. But I think it’s important to remember the more analog was of finding errors.
Ah, yes, the sweet, sweet smell of punch cards! And the horror (HORROR!!!) of seeing the box hit the floor.