Spreadsheet
/ˈspredʃiːt/noun
A digital document that stores data in a grid of vertical columns and horizontal rows, often used for calculations and managing data.
She used a spreadsheet to calculate the monthly expenses.
Often appears as...
- excel spreadsheet
- google spreadsheet
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Technical
noun
A digital document that stores data in a grid of vertical columns and horizontal rows, often used for calculations and managing data.
She used a spreadsheet to calculate the monthly expenses.
Often appears as...
- excel spreadsheet
- google spreadsheet
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Data Organization
Spreadsheets are for organizing data neatly, especially for analysis or presentation.
Her spreadsheet sorted survey results by age and preference.
Pro Tip 2/3Calculation Tool
Spreadsheets can perform complex calculations using formulas, making math tasks easier.
His spreadsheet automatically calculates total sales for each quarter.
Pro Tip 3/3Business Commonplace
In a business context, spreadsheets are common for finance, inventory, and scheduling.
The manager shared a spreadsheet of the employee shift schedule.
Compare with
budgetchartinventoryledgermatrixrecordregistertable
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How I accidentally...
which, in this world, is increasingly rare. Now, almost all of the 75 people I emailed anonymously responded. And then two dozen other people actually emailed to participate to this anonymous email address, but I confirmed that they did in fact have the jobs they claimed to have. And I then compiled the votes into a spreadsheet,
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Rodney Brooks: Why we...
but it respected office workers as being capable of being programmers. So office workers became programmers of spreadsheets. It increased their capabilities. They no longer had to do the mundane computations, but they could do something much more. Now today, we're starting to see robots in our lives.
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Rory Sutherland: Sweat...
than if you actually acknowledge that quite a lot of the credit for a company's success might actually lie somewhere else, in small pieces of tactical activity. But what is happening is that effectively -- and the invention of the spreadsheet hasn't helped this; lots of things haven't helped this --
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Kenneth Cukier: Big data...
there is a spreadsheet or at least a database entry that records your information of where you've been at all times. If you have a cell phone, and that cell phone has GPS, but even if it doesn't have GPS, it can record your information. In this respect, location has been datafied.
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The surprising...
what's going on in their private lives, what society needs. These are all questions and elements that are very hard to put into a spreadsheet, into an algorithm. It's very hard to make them part of our rational decision. But if we miss these, we're missing key important points,
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How data helps us...
our lived reality something that the human brain is good at you see the human mind is all naturally actually amazingly good at detecting patterns out in the world around us so the intuition here is we're not as equally as good and understanding a spreadsheet think of the
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Margaret Heffernan: Why...
Now, you don't get taught this in engineering school -- -- and it's not really the kind of thing you want to get wrong, so he could have spent months talking to vets, doing the research, tweaking the spreadsheet. Instead, he asked for help
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The beauty of data...
Doc and it's literally generating itself from that data so the data is now alive this is a living image and I can update it in a second new evidence comes out I just change a row on a spreadsheet doosh again this the imagery recreates
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Tim Cope: On the Trail...
back and by the time I'd reached the end I was looking forward to going home and really savoring my timer among family and friends I began planning this journey with real naivety in fact I've got an Excel spreadsheet out I've
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Robert A. Belle: The...
And maybe she might have an avoidance strategy around both her money and her relationships. It's been six years since I first help her chart her finances, and she's still consistently keeping up with her spreadsheet.
Video examples
How I accidentally...
which, in this world, is increasingly rare. Now, almost all of the 75 people I emailed anonymously responded. And then two dozen other people actually emailed to participate to this anonymous email address, but I confirmed that they did in fact have the jobs they claimed to have. And I then compiled the votes into a spreadsheet,
Video examples
Rodney Brooks: Why we...
but it respected office workers as being capable of being programmers. So office workers became programmers of spreadsheets. It increased their capabilities. They no longer had to do the mundane computations, but they could do something much more. Now today, we're starting to see robots in our lives.
Video examples
Rory Sutherland: Sweat...
than if you actually acknowledge that quite a lot of the credit for a company's success might actually lie somewhere else, in small pieces of tactical activity. But what is happening is that effectively -- and the invention of the spreadsheet hasn't helped this; lots of things haven't helped this --
Video examples
Kenneth Cukier: Big data...
there is a spreadsheet or at least a database entry that records your information of where you've been at all times. If you have a cell phone, and that cell phone has GPS, but even if it doesn't have GPS, it can record your information. In this respect, location has been datafied.
Video examples
The surprising...
what's going on in their private lives, what society needs. These are all questions and elements that are very hard to put into a spreadsheet, into an algorithm. It's very hard to make them part of our rational decision. But if we miss these, we're missing key important points,
Video examples
How data helps us...
our lived reality something that the human brain is good at you see the human mind is all naturally actually amazingly good at detecting patterns out in the world around us so the intuition here is we're not as equally as good and understanding a spreadsheet think of the
Video examples
Margaret Heffernan: Why...
Now, you don't get taught this in engineering school -- -- and it's not really the kind of thing you want to get wrong, so he could have spent months talking to vets, doing the research, tweaking the spreadsheet. Instead, he asked for help
Video examples
The beauty of data...
Doc and it's literally generating itself from that data so the data is now alive this is a living image and I can update it in a second new evidence comes out I just change a row on a spreadsheet doosh again this the imagery recreates
Video examples
Tim Cope: On the Trail...
back and by the time I'd reached the end I was looking forward to going home and really savoring my timer among family and friends I began planning this journey with real naivety in fact I've got an Excel spreadsheet out I've
Video examples
Robert A. Belle: The...
And maybe she might have an avoidance strategy around both her money and her relationships. It's been six years since I first help her chart her finances, and she's still consistently keeping up with her spreadsheet.
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Steve Jobs
American Businessman
Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus' success in the spreadsheet - basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost.
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Neal Shusterman
American Author
I have a color-coded computer spreadsheet that divides things down to chapter fragments. Each character's point-of-view is a different color. The text of the manuscript is color-coded the same way. The last thing I do before submitting the manuscript is turn all those colors back to black.
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Rodney Brooks
Australian Scientist
With the revolution around 1980 of PCs, the spreadsheet programs were tuned for office workers - not to replace office workers, but it respected office workers as being capable of being programmers. So office workers became programmers of spreadsheets. It increased their capabilities.
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Patricia Arquette
American Actress
Financiers don't support their directors to cast properly. They don't have the vision of an artist. They're casting to spreadsheets, and it's making movies very mediocre. The movie business used to just be called the movies. Now it should be the business movies.
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Jon Taffer
American Businessman
If you can't build a relationship with your customers, you're in big trouble. If you can remember the numbers from the reports and spreadsheets you spent hours poring over in your office, but you can't picture the faces of your customers - you're in big trouble.
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Dan Gilbert
American Coach
One of our things is that money follows; it does not lead. So we want people that are fired up and passionate about their mission... and people that aren't so married to spreadsheets and thinking that kind of voodoo controls the future. Because it doesn't.
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Steve Case
American Businessman
Most of the people who had PCs did not have modems and could not use those PCs as communicating devices. They really were using them for spreadsheets or word processing or storing recipes or playing games or what have you.
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Phil Bredesen
American Politician
The consequences of decisions don't just affect spreadsheets... They affect, in fundamental ways, the lives of people and they often mean the difference between life and death.
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George Groves
British Athlete
I know how to read a spreadsheet, I know what I'm worth so I can go into meetings and say, 'I get paid that much, thank you.
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Nate Silver
American Writer
If I had a spreadsheet on my computer, it looked like I was busy.
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Steve Jobs
American Businessman
Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus' success in the spreadsheet - basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost.
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Neal Shusterman
American Author
I have a color-coded computer spreadsheet that divides things down to chapter fragments. Each character's point-of-view is a different color. The text of the manuscript is color-coded the same way. The last thing I do before submitting the manuscript is turn all those colors back to black.
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Rodney Brooks
Australian Scientist
With the revolution around 1980 of PCs, the spreadsheet programs were tuned for office workers - not to replace office workers, but it respected office workers as being capable of being programmers. So office workers became programmers of spreadsheets. It increased their capabilities.
Quote examples
Patricia Arquette
American Actress
Financiers don't support their directors to cast properly. They don't have the vision of an artist. They're casting to spreadsheets, and it's making movies very mediocre. The movie business used to just be called the movies. Now it should be the business movies.
Quote examples
Jon Taffer
American Businessman
If you can't build a relationship with your customers, you're in big trouble. If you can remember the numbers from the reports and spreadsheets you spent hours poring over in your office, but you can't picture the faces of your customers - you're in big trouble.
Quote examples
Dan Gilbert
American Coach
One of our things is that money follows; it does not lead. So we want people that are fired up and passionate about their mission... and people that aren't so married to spreadsheets and thinking that kind of voodoo controls the future. Because it doesn't.
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Steve Case
American Businessman
Most of the people who had PCs did not have modems and could not use those PCs as communicating devices. They really were using them for spreadsheets or word processing or storing recipes or playing games or what have you.
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Phil Bredesen
American Politician
The consequences of decisions don't just affect spreadsheets... They affect, in fundamental ways, the lives of people and they often mean the difference between life and death.
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George Groves
British Athlete
I know how to read a spreadsheet, I know what I'm worth so I can go into meetings and say, 'I get paid that much, thank you.
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Nate Silver
American Writer
If I had a spreadsheet on my computer, it looked like I was busy.
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