Swimmer963 comments on Research methods - Less Wrong

13 Post author: Swimmer963 22 February 2011 06:10AM

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Comment author: Swimmer963 22 February 2011 04:10:22PM 2 points [-]

Working with a 'proper' database is a skill I still lack, which I would very much like to acquire. I was hoping this job would help, but instead I just enter everything into Excel. (To be fair, you can manipulate data a fair bit using Excel formulas. I just don't know all of them.)

Comment author: Daniel_Burfoot 22 February 2011 06:59:30PM 3 points [-]

Try MS Access. It is pretty simple to use, and has a nice export to Excel feature. Once you "get" Access it should be easy to move on to more advanced DB tools. Access also has a better UI that should make data-input work easier.

Comment author: Swimmer963 27 February 2011 09:12:14PM 0 points [-]

Thanks.