My roommate did something smart today, he asked me what to get his girlfriend for V-day. He said she didn't really like commercialism. He figured she wouldn't want candy or chocolate. My suggestion was a stuffed animal. They're cheap and you usually have to spend some effort picking one out. He really liked that idea, apparently she has lots of stuffed animals.
In other news I've been studying today. I read a book cover to cover that I'll need for next Monday. I figured I should do it now. If I go home for the weekend, I'll sort through my room rather than study. I still want to take some notes on my political science book.
My roommate is gone for a day or two. He needs to get some more medical tests done. They're still trying to get his kidney to work properly. Apparently the surgery that they made him drop out of school last year to get didn't work. =( Although if he is out of town I might take a nice long bath tonight.
At work I'm currently working on a fun project. I get to use this Implan program that I like to compare one county with the rest of the united states. We're targeting retirement industries to see if there is some money somewhere that can be captured. I like economic planning stuff, it's fun. I created an excel spreadsheet today with something like 12 worksheets. It has 3 pivot tables, two of which link to external data sources. I'm quite impressed with myself. I'm glad I have Thursday off though. I wish tomorrow was Thursday. Wednesdays are nice too though. I like ballroom dancing.
Now wasn't that a fun post to read? :P
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I work quite a lot in Excel, but so far I haven't learned pivot tables. What are they used for?
Hmm ett mjukisdjur, det känner jag igen :-) Och det är alltid roligt att läsa det du skriver.
Pivot tables are used to organize large blocks of information. I use them sometimes when I have a 100,000+ record file. I really only need records that refer to a few zip codes. So I'll create a pivot table and have it show me the data for only those zip codes and for only the fields I need.
My poor work computer crashes though if I try to create an extranl data source using hospital outpatient data... apparently 1.6 million records are more than it can handle even externally. (about 62k internally before it runs out of lines)
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