bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦
It is 2026 and I have made my first pivot table and it worked on the first attempt. To compensate, I assume the power will now go out, or a meteor will strike me.
Mar 18 at 5:39pmWeb
Show threadDavidMar 18

@bert_hubert

An update will break something or the Internet will go down

Show threaddasgrueneblattMar 18
@bert_hubert 🍀
Show threadGabriel Adrian SamfiraMar 18
@bert_hubert I ware a crash helmet whenever I manage to center a div on the first try.
Show threadDjoerd Hiemstra 🍉Mar 18
@bert_hubert web search: "pivot table"... 🤔
Show threadandrybakMar 19

@bert_hubert pivot tables are so useful, Joel Spolsky spent, like, half (exaggerated) of his presentation "You Suck at Excel" talking about them

https://archive.org/details/youtube-0nbkaYsR94c
it's both fun and educational

You Suck at Excel with Joel Spolsky : Joel Spolsky : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

(a private presentation to Stack Overflow, Trello, and Fog Creek)The way you are using Excel causes errors, creates incomprehensible spaghetti spreadsheets,...

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Show threadflorian Mar 19
@bert_hubert in the distance... sirens.
Show threadSven NeuhausMar 19
@bert_hubert to feel less dirty, check out summary tables in grist
https://support.getgrist.com/summary-tables/
Summary tables - Grist Help Center

Summary tables are the workhorse of data analysis in Grist. They are similar to “pivot tables” in spreadsheets, and to GROUP BY clauses in databases. They let you get table-wide totals or any subtotals.