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on April 18, 2013
Over the years I have mentioned the notion of the semantic spreadsheet. Probably the best example of a semantic spreadsheet can be seen in this software application . Watch the "Introduction" video, the first in the list.
At a point in the video they talk about "meaningful labels rater than arbitr ...
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Journal Entry
on March 23, 2010
There are people saying that the electronic spreadsheet is dead meat. This article in Government Technology titled XBRL Ends Spreadsheet Hell points out some of the shortcomings of the electronic spreadsheet. In his book Pull: The Power of the Semantic Web to Transform Your Business , David Siegel s ...
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Journal Entry
on July 27, 2015
This is the definition of a spreadsheet provided by Wikipedia :
A spreadsheet is an interactive computer application program for organization, analysis and storage of data in tabular form . Spreadsheets developed as computerized simulations of paper accounting worksheets. The program operates on ...
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on August 27, 2018
I have used the term semantic spreadsheet , cell store , spreadsheet hell , and have pointed out the problems of current approaches to working with spreadsheets .
I was introduced to a new term today, deductive spreadsheet or logical spreadsheet . Here is a set of slides that explain deductive spr ...
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Journal Entry
on January 16, 2020
OMG will hold the first meeting of the Semantic Workbook (SXLM) Working Group at their Boston meeting in June. You can see mention of the semantic workbook in the July 2019 meeting notes of the OMG Amsterdam meeting:
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As part of the OMG Standard Business R ...
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Journal Entry
on July 5, 2016
Consider this. A public company takes information about their financial position and financial condition out of a database and/or electronic spreadsheet. The put that information into the XBRL format and send that financial information to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The SEC ...
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Journal Entry
on October 15, 2020
The Wired article, Meet the Excel Warriors Saving the World from Spreadsheet Disaster , tells the story of "a quiet battle against illogical formulas, copy-and-paste errors, and structural chaos that cause data carnage."
The article points out,
Research suggests more than 90 per cent of spread ...
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Journal Entry
on August 2, 2013
I have mentioned the notion of the " semantic spreadsheet ". This blog post says that it is time for a new take on spreadsheets. The author of the blog also points out that Microsoft Excel is by far the leader in the world of electronic spreadsheets, but the needs of the tablet PC and moble devices ...
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Journal Entry
on November 14, 2014
Ghislain Fourny of 28msec , creators of SECXBRL.info , came up with the notion of the Cell Store which he describes in a paper he wrote on the subject . He describes a cell store as:
Cell stores provide a relational-like, tabular level of abstraction to business users while leveraging recent d ...
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Journal Entry
on May 3, 2014
This blog post attempts to synthesize and summarize the blog posts: Understanding Database/Query Options Part 1 , Part 2 , and Part 3 . If you are reading through this and desire additional details, go to those three parts, the details are there somewhere. This information leads me to the belief tha ...
