Spreadsheet Day 2024 Roundup
Thanks for celebrating Spreadsheet Day 2024 on October 17th! In case you missed any of the fun, here’s a roundup with a few highlights from this year’s posts.
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Spreadsheet Mugs
Does your hot beverage taste better if you drink it from a spreadsheet-themed mug? Here’s a post from long-time Spreadsheet Day supporter and Power Query expert, Ken Puls, showing his spreadsheet mug.
Happy #SpreadsheetDay day to my fellow #Excel nerds! This seems like an appropriate mug to use today.
(DYI Spreadsheet Day was started by @ddalgleish in 2010 to commemorate the day VisiCalc, the first computer spreadsheet program, was released in 1979.) pic.twitter.com/xvUwFtnbWW
— Ken Puls, FCPA, FCMA (@kpuls) October 17, 2024
Spreadsheet History
They take spreadsheets seriously in Arlington, MA. That’s the town where Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston worked on their VisiCalc program, before releasing it in 1979.
On October 17th, 2024, the yourArlington website posted a letter from Arlington resident, Paul Selker, who recommended that the town should honour this tech history, in the following 3 ways:
- town proclamation to honour Spreadsheet Day
- historical plaque near Frankston’s former apartment
- VisiCalc history added to the town’s website
That sounds like a great idea, so if you live in Arlington, please support this!
Early Days
In this photo, Mary L Cottingham shows the computer equipment that she used, when starting out with VisiCalc.
#SpreadsheetDay is celebrated on October 17th, the date VisiCalc, the first spreadsheet program for Apple ll, was released in 1979… and the process of massive amounts of data became easier. Otherwise known as why Mr C bought all this… and my computing adventure began. pic.twitter.com/C0cY73aiRv
— Mary L Cottingham (she/her) (@DBA_Empress) October 18, 2024
Overflowing Spreadsheets
For this image, the U.K.’s Government Analysis Function asked Copilot to create an image with overflowing spreadsheets. What do you think of the result?
Do the teams at your workplace feel like this about their spreadsheets?
It’s #SpreadsheetDay and we’re analysts, of course we asked @MSFTCopilot to produce an image with the prompt of: spreadsheet overflowing outside the computer, linking two teams through the power of the internet What do you think? pic.twitter.com/gayRMWi9oV
— Government Analysis Function (@gov_analysis) October 17, 2024
Datasets for Spreadsheets
Here in Ontario, Canada, the Ministry of Finance has datasets that you can download in spreadsheet format. Those could be useful for practising new skills!
It’s #SpreadsheetDay!
From tax rates to registrant lists, many of the 80+ Ministry of Finance datasets on Ontario’s Data Catalogue are available in spreadsheet (XLSX) format.
Learn more: https://t.co/3phFGaxsyj @ONdigital pic.twitter.com/yxbkRVbYKZ
— Ministry of Finance (@ONfinance) October 17, 2024
Cell-ebrate Spreadsheet Day
And finally, here’s a post from the Microsoft Excel account, with an animation of the Spreadsheet Day logo that I created, long ago!
Happy Spreadsheet Day to all who cell-ebrate! #Excel pic.twitter.com/LvhpVTltMt
— Microsoft Excel (@msexcel) October 17, 2024
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Thanks for celebrating Spreadsheet Day 2024, and we’ll do it again next year, to show our continued love for spreadsheets!
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Spreadsheet Day 2024 Roundup
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