I’m helping someone process a collection of research data that has been entered by a third party using Excel. We’re using LibreOffice Calc, because research should be reproducible by anyone, not just those in possession of prioprietary software licenses (this also means that we use R, JGR and DeduceR instead of SPSS and Statistica; perhaps more on that later). After having to fix hundreds of badly entered dates with basic functions (we highly recommend that ISO 8601 format dates, i.e. YYY...
