Excel as input is the protein-based bottleneck killing CRE data

The brutal truth about Excel as an input tool: it keeps your hands full of work. Its flexibility, the thing everyone loves, creates room for multiplying endless tables, spreadsheets, pivots, analyses. Following Parkinson’s law: given three days for a job with Excel, you will fill that time. Another angle - Excel puts way too much unstructured power in one person’s hands.

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