I have been a fan of figshare since their launch a few months back, but when I ran into their founder at Strata in London yesterday, I considered this a sign I should spend a post on their great initiative. So, here goes: What is figshare? FigShare is basically a website where scientists can store their […]
TinyToCS: Exact and Near-miss Clone Detection in Spreadsheets
Our mini-paper ‘Exact and Near-miss Clone Detection in Spreadsheets’ was accepted in the first volume of TinyToCS. Tiny Transactions on Computer Science is a cute new initiative started by two researchers from the University of California in Berkeley, that aims to make computer science research more accessible to the general public. In their own words: “Tiny […]
Detecting Code Smells in Spreadsheet Formulas
We just learned this paper is accepted at ICSM 2012. The idea The basic idea of this paper is to investigate whether we could apply the known code smells invented by Martin Fowler in his book Refactoring to spreadsheet formulas. You could view a formula as a small piece of code, so it makes sense to […]
Related work section for a paper
This paper concerns the analysis of data in spreadsheets, focusing on duplication of data. So, how do I do this? Spreadsheet data I visit DBLP (contains 2014228 papers) and enter spreadsheet data, this results in 44 results. I notice two very interesting paper that do not have to do with the related work section I am writing, but […]
Measuring Spreadsheet Formula Understandability
This paper is accepted at the Annual Conference of the European Spreadsheet Risk Interest Group in July in Manchester. Measuring Spreadsheet Formula Understandability Spreadsheets are widely used in industry, because they are flexible and easy to use. Often they are used for business-critical applications. It is however difficult for spreadsheet users to correctly assess the quality […]
