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Showing 1 to 20 of 285 for “"spreadsheet"”.
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Refactoring meets spreadsheet formulas
The number of end-users who write spreadsheet programs is at least an order of magnitude larger than the number of trained programmers who write professional software. We studied a corpus of 3691 spreadsheets and we found that their formulas are riddled with the same smells that plague professional …
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Production cost modeling : a spreadsheet methodology
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, 1985.
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A PHIGS-based spreadsheet for conceptual design
… needed. This thesis describes the creation of a spreadsheet input system to fulfill this need. The requirements, functional specification, and design of the system are addressed using a software engineering methodology. Accepted standards for programming and graphics, namely C and PHIGS, are used …
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Layout Inference and Table Detection in Spreadsheet Documents
Spreadsheets have found wide use in many different domains and settings. They provide a broad range of both basic and advanced functionalities. In this way, they can support data collection, transformation, analysis, and reporting. Nevertheless, at the same time spreadsheets maintain a friendly and …
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Development Of A Spreadsheet For Bar Graph Softening
… The purpose of this study is to develop a spreadsheet that can work with existing equipment to improve on these existing methods for lime softening. A spreadsheet, utilizing the Bar Graph Method (Gullicks) could perform the necessary calculations for determining chemical feed based on user …
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Generalizing spreadsheet computation for evolving spreadsheets at scale
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-04-06 without embargo terms
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Applying spreadsheet concepts to new knowledge acquisition tools
Thesis: M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1987
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Can an LLM find its way around a Spreadsheet?
Spreadsheets are routinely used in business and scientific contexts, and one of the most vexing challenges data analysts face is performing data cleaning prior to analysis and evaluation. The ad-hoc and arbitrary nature of data cleaning problems, such as typos, inconsistent formatting, missing …
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Towards a Theory of Spreadsheet Accuracy: An Empirical Study
Electronic spreadsheets have made a major contribution to financial analysis and problem solving. Although professionals base many decisions on the analysis of a spreadsheet model, literature documents the data quality problems that often occur, i.e. underlying formulas and resulting numbers are …
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Design evaluation spreadsheet for the design of a baby teether
Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1990.
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Rule based machine translation of spreadsheet formulas to natural language expressions
Errors in spreadsheets are a pervasive problem both in business and other real-life settings. Most errors in spreadsheets are formula based. Spreadsheet formulas are normally specified using alphanumeric cell addresses and can only be understood if one associates referenced cells to their labels. …
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An extended spreadsheet paradigm for data visualisation systems, and its implementation
… describe a data visualisation system which uses spreadsheets as its user interface metaphor. Similar systems implemented in the past were hampered by the contradiction between an imperative formula language and the declarative spreadsheet framework. We have analysed spreadsheets from a data …
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Styling in Espalier : a spreadsheet tool for manipulation of structured data
The spreadsheet is a commonly-used programming tool, useful for a wide variety of data-driven tasks. They, however, lack the capability of robustly representing and manipulating structured data. Espalier is a new spreadsheet-based programming paradigm which uses a powerful scoped-splits model that …
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Goal definition spreadsheet for the design of a damped wrist orthosis
Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1989.
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A spreadsheet-based tool for synthesis of heat and mass exchange networks
The objective of this project was to develop a user-friendly program for applying Pinch Technology approach to both Heat Exchanger Networks Synthesis (HENS) and Mass Exchanger Networks Synthesis (MENS) for use by ordinary engineers. Pinch Technology is a structure independent approach.
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A spreadsheet-based user interface for managing plural relationships in structured data
… at hand, information workers instead turn to spreadsheets, a general and more familiar data management tool which, unfortunately, lends itself poorly to schemas requiring multiple related entity sets. In this thesis, we propose to reduce the cost-usability gap between spreadsheets and …
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Product strategies for packaged software : an exploratory analysis of the spreadsheet market
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1993.
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Queue predictions at temporary work zones: modification and testing of an existing spreadsheet
… only to the queue estimation worksheet of that spreadsheet tool, herein referred to as the OkDOT baseline version. This tool, based on input-output logic, is simple to understand and use. Preliminary testing of the OkDOT baseline spreadsheet confirmed a lack of accuracy, and an opportunity to …
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Analyzing and Manipulating Numeric Business Data: An Aid to Non-Expert Users (Spreadsheet Programs)
… it is used mostly for presentation. Currently, spreadsheet programs which are based on the tabular framework are widely used in business for manipulating numeric data. But they have barely touched the potential of TF. For example, in most of the operations, the target unit of operation is a …
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