Posts under ‘Spreadsheet Day’

There’s a lot of bull in business, but if you’re actually buying a bull, this Value of a Bull spreadsheet should help with your decisions. Just like any other big purchase, apparently there are many things to consider when buying a bull. For example: How much is too much to pay for a bull? Is [...]

My cookbooks are full of comments. When I try a recipe, the cookbook gets marked with a date and rating, so I’ll remember what worked, and what didn’t. Sometimes the ingredient list is marked up too, if I substitute ingredients, or add things that aren’t in the list. Apparently some people don’t like to write [...]

When you play games on a Wii, your body movements trigger emotions, which make the experience more entertaining, according to scientists who are studying the effects these games have. Could you create a spreadsheet that works on a game console, to make that experience more enjoyable too? In the article,  How Wii and Kinect Hack [...]

Until today, I’d never heard of an artist named Agnes Martin. In a post on the All My Eyes blog, Life Imitates Art?, Martin’s work was compared to a spreadsheet, so I Googled to learn more about her, and see her work. To my surprise, she’s a Canadian artist, born in Saskatchewan in 1912, and [...]

Here’s another creative use for Excel, from Leeann Marie Golish, a wedding photographer in Pittsburgh. She tracks her sales leads in an Excel Table, and uses pivot tables to summarize the results. On her website, Leeann explains why she likes using this Excel tool: Being a trained engineer, I’m really drawn to numbers and especially [...]

At the ICT In Education blog, Terry Freedman suggests interesting ways to teach modelling and sequencing in the classroom, by using Excel. In his article, Why Teach Spreadsheets, Freedman shows that spreadsheets aren’t just for science and math classes — you can use them in other areas too. For example: you take a novel such [...]

It’s finally here — the occasion you’ve been waiting for all year — Spreadsheet Day! October 17th was voted the best day to celebrate spreadsheets, because October 17, 1979 was the release date of VisiCalc, the first spreadsheet for personal computers. How will you celebrate? If you’re still looking for ideas, here are a few [...]

When you’re celebrating Spreadsheet Day on October 17th, you might want to light your office with this lovely TulipK lamp, designed in Excel by Ben Geeblen. The lamp’s six petals close and open, and the design was inspired by the tulip on his wedding invitation. Geeblen describes the design process: The holes were designed with [...]

One dark, cold day in February, I suggested that we pick a day to celebrate as Spreadsheet Day. You participated in a poll to pick a suitable date, and October 17th, the release date of VisiCalc, got the most votes. Well, that date is just over a week away, so it will soon be Spreadsheet [...]