I grew up in Asia and currently living in US. I had never thought of it that way, so I will need more time to connect the dots with this particular view point.
Not integrated in vim, but try visidata (https://github.com/saulpw/visidata) on Sqlite. I tried after HN post last weekend and it was amazing... with Vim-like keys and interface.
I love all things data. I would love to close the gap in your data pipeline as needed, anywhere from data engineering, data modeling to data visualization and data science.
I don't work in tech industry but from my experience it's a lot simpler than that. Most of these day-to-day desk workers know nothing but excel because that's all they know from home and work.
I agree that most people just default to Excel. Mostly that's because there isn't really any competition and Excel is the default and even if there was competition, it would not matter because Excel has a low initial cost except when compared with free.
More subtly, Excel has a low lifetime cost because there are many good learning resources (and also many bad ones) and those resources are widely available. Which makes me think that one of the killer features of Excel is all the technical headroom it provides for solving problems...by which I mean there is usually functionality and features that could make an ordinary job faster...particularly repetitive ordinary jobs of the sort most people wind up doing.
Agreed. The thing about Excel isn't about the features. It's about the adoption across pretty every company in the world. It's in schools and it's used at work. When people become proficient in a tool, they are less willing to learn a whole new tool to accomplish basically the same thing Excel can. They will just ask the company to buy Excel. And it's cheaper to buy Excel than to pay for the employee to train on the new tool.
I just spent all day yesterday debugging why my web app's font-awesome/material design icons weren't showing on IE while they were showing on chrome, ff, and edge. Turned out that to be the corporate policy to disable font downloading on IE.
https://www.stigviewer.com/stig/microsoft_internet_explorer_...
I don't know anything about control room but I'm generally interested in building information-dense dashboards. Was your electronic music example supposed to show a good example of a display that is developed-based-on-user-feedback?
Let me add a bit more irony here: github is blocked from my work(USAF) so I can't get to code.mil. All I want to do is be the workaholic that I am and DoD makes it literally impossible for me to do that. You have no idea how much bureaucracy can defeat the spirit of an employee. Most of my friends are leaving the AF for reasons like this. I'll do my best during my time here, but needless to say, I'm out.
For some reason the AF seems to have draconian web filtering in place, compared to other places I have experience with. In the late 2000's when I was still on active duty, we used to complain about having to look stuff up at home because when you'd go to search for a tech solution and it was on someone's random blog, 9 times out of 10 it'd be blocked. It was extremely frustrating.
Fwiw, I'm a Navy physician and have the same problem. Wait until you know, that right now, someone is very sick, and the study you're trying to look up is hosted on a server in some super sketchy non-ally, like Switzerland.
This is why part of my profile says "reformed rocket scientist". I spent a little under two years working for a NASA contractor on their sounding rocket program. The problems I was paid to solve were relatively un-interesting (find the best ways to fit the experimenter's data requirements into our ancient, antiquated, badly-in-need-of-replacement hardware). The problems the experimenters were solving were actually fascinating, but I didn't get much exposure to their side of things.
Now yes, I am struggling with Information Assurance people and their cantankerousness, but I also have the unique pleasure of being the primary data scientist on this very large project, which is exposing me to new things every day. I just haven't had an environment for learning this rich before.
