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The paper discusses how Excel and Excel VBA can be used for preliminary analysis in big data research. It addresses two main topics: 1) How spreadsheet models in Excel can be used for processing and outputting data, despite criticisms of hard-coding values. Functions like IF, statistical tools, filters, and Power Pivot are examined. 2) The differences between Excel and Excel VBA programming are highlighted, and how VBA allows for more advanced analysis of big data through macros and additional features not available in regular Excel. The reaction discusses the author's experience using Excel for accounting and data analysis, and agrees that Excel functions and VBA macros can facilitate faster and more accurate big data analysis when used properly.

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Reaction Paper - Using Excel and Excel VBA For Preliminary Analysis in Big Data Research

The paper discusses how Excel and Excel VBA can be used for preliminary analysis in big data research. It addresses two main topics: 1) How spreadsheet models in Excel can be used for processing and outputting data, despite criticisms of hard-coding values. Functions like IF, statistical tools, filters, and Power Pivot are examined. 2) The differences between Excel and Excel VBA programming are highlighted, and how VBA allows for more advanced analysis of big data through macros and additional features not available in regular Excel. The reaction discusses the author's experience using Excel for accounting and data analysis, and agrees that Excel functions and VBA macros can facilitate faster and more accurate big data analysis when used properly.

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Using Excel and Excel VBA for Preliminary Analysis in Big Data Research

Paul Blayney and Zhaohao Sun paper Using Excel and Excel VBA for Preliminary
Analysis in Big Data Research (2019) is a research about where and how to utilize
spreadsheet software to do big data research, and how utilized excel be with other soft wares
and analytical approaches in big data research. The researchers separately discuss on how to
use excel and programming with Visual Basic for Application (VBA) labelling section one
and two. For section one they tackled that spreadsheet models combined processing and
output components that cause it to be criticised by traditional programmers. They also
mentioned the problem of hard coding values, the formulas tab in the Excel’s function
library, the concept and importance of modularisation, and discussions about the IF function,
excel statistical function, the excel data filters, and the power pivot. The section two which is
about excel VBA, the researchers highlight the difference between excel and excel VBA and
discuss how to utilized excel VBA and how it will work.

I have been familiar with excel and excel Visual Basic for Application (VBA) is very
new to me. In my previous subjects our professors introduce to us how to use excel functions
in solving and analysing asset management. I definitely agree on this statement “Virtually
every successful spreadsheet application uses formulas. In fact, constructing formulas can
certainly be construed as a type of “programming”. (Walkenbach, 2002, p. 37)” for a reason
that spreadsheet or excel has many functions that can be used in solving quickly the sum,
count, average, ratios, etc. just by inputting specific values and formulas in a particular order
and as an accountant student it was taught to us that constructing formulas in excel can be
used as an accounting tool in preparing financial statements such as balance sheets, income
statements, cash flows and shareholders’ equity and specially in creating and preparing a
payroll system. Next, my thoughts about excel statistical function is one of the most
commonly used function in spreadsheet because it is used in big data analysis both in a
quantitative and qualitative research by solving and giving the accurate mean, median,
variances, standard deviation based on the data gathered. My thought about the art of
programming with excel VBA is that it has a huge difference with excel and just by
mastering some basic VBA techniques it can increase the amount exponentially of analysing
big data. In the getting started with excel VBA it only proves the huge difference between
them because excel VBA has additional features that excel don’t have and it can easily
analyse those big data. One strength of VBA is creating a macros, these macros are
programming codes that could facilitate to speed up the analysis and give accurate data if
correct datas are added to the program.

My final thought about this research paper is that excel or spreadsheets are commonly
used for PCs and laptop and also commonly used by accountants specially that one of their
specialization is bookkeeping. Excels with or without programming are used to do basic data
analysis to see if it is a reasonable alternative to a statistical package in the same case and one
of the strength of excel is it quickly and easily manipulate rows and columns prior to
statistical analysis. Lastly, using excel VBA is better in automating task and performing more
complex task that would take longer and more resources are needed to complete.

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