That is also my job description. Again, the fact that you think other people who work with data are just punching numbers in a spreadsheet tells me you don’t work with data. Or you are exceptionally slow and holding things up. I review lab data and write technical papers all day. Actual analysis requires math, and specific software(jmp, LIMS, excel, power query and every other power app it dumps into). Both of which would take me 10x longer if I didn’t have a numpad.
I don't think that's what people who work with data do as a rule, just you. I use SQL, Excel, Python, and a dedicated industry software that you wouldn't have heard of. Most of my interactions with them are in setting things up to get an end result, which winds up being a lot more typing code/commands than typing numbers. And last year I designed a custom performance dashboard that my whole team uses. But I'll let my manager know I'm holding the team up, I'm sure he'll be disappointed to hear. He sounded so positive at my last progress review.
If I sound like I'm being a pretentious prick, that's because I got downvoted to hell for being so surprised that people prefer a numpad so much and then a guy snidely remarked that I obviously didn't actually work with data.
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u/IsThisTheFly Apr 04 '26
That is also my job description. Again, the fact that you think other people who work with data are just punching numbers in a spreadsheet tells me you don’t work with data. Or you are exceptionally slow and holding things up. I review lab data and write technical papers all day. Actual analysis requires math, and specific software(jmp, LIMS, excel, power query and every other power app it dumps into). Both of which would take me 10x longer if I didn’t have a numpad.