Timeline for Is there currently a way to host CSV or tab delimited data for helping with database, spreadsheets, or any grid-like applications?
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| Jun 21, 2016 at 13:01 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/super_user/status/745240212373114880 | ||
| Jun 15, 2016 at 4:36 | answer | added | Scott - Слава Україні | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jun 15, 2016 at 2:37 | comment | added | Sun | Proof shows you verified your work and there is trust in your answer. I've tried people's solution where it didn't work. No proof invites wrong answers. Hey no one is stopping you from asking how you wish. I personally won't bother solving questions if loading data to prove a solution takes too much time. For example, your question I wouldn't bother with because the data is not import friendly. Who knows maybe there are others that can provide a brilliant answer but by not making it easy to answer, people are discouraged to answer. I just see a blocker here and wish there was a better way. | |
| Jun 15, 2016 at 2:31 | comment | added | Braiam | Why should we care about importing to excel or whatever? Datasets are as generic as they can be and the most help you can get is "this is the formula that you can use to do that" or "here's a vba macro that does what you like". Proof/examples is just something extra, a visualization of what it should looks like. Spreadsheets aren't visual tools, but heavily text based. Instructions can be given using text just fine too. | |
| Jun 15, 2016 at 2:27 | comment | added | Sun | I'm not talking about the person asking the question. I'm referring to proper that answer questions have to recreate the data to provide the answer with proof. The way you posted your question means I have to recreate your data then going about solving it. The format you present IDs good for visual presentation but not for importing into excel. Certainly better than a screenshot but still not easy to import into excel | |
| Jun 15, 2016 at 1:47 | comment | added | Braiam | Actually, I typed nothing. I just looked for one of these nice online ascii table generators because while I explained it with just words a graphical representation. | |
| Jun 15, 2016 at 1:15 | comment | added | Sun | Yeah perfect example of sample data that you have to re type. And some sample data unfortunately is more than three rows to explain properly | |
| Jun 15, 2016 at 1:12 | comment | added | Braiam | No, and anyways, we don't need your entire datasheet to reproduce whatever you want to do. A mere representation is enough. Like this | |
| Jun 8, 2016 at 21:54 | history | asked | Sun | CC BY-SA 3.0 |