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Stand-up comedy routine about Spreadsheets
Matt Parker's stand-up routine about spreadsheets, taken from the Festival of the Spoken Nerd DVD Full Frontal Nerdity. It features Excel used in unexpected ways, including turning an image into a spreadsheet.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN recommends it as a funny piece on Excel used in ways it shouldn't be.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Stand-up Maths
- Topic
- spreadsheets
- Format
- comedy
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 7
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2018–2025
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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Given we've got Matt Parker and Excel on the front page at the same time, it feels like I have to recommend this video of both: [VIDEO]
mjlee on Hacker News · 2018-10
In Matt Parker – Standup Mathematician3b1b uses a python library for creating those videos. [LINK] As far as a math educator/communicator, one of my favorite videos of his is the video on the monster. [LINK] Also since we're talking about powerpoint here you should probably see this Matt Parker video …
bb88 on Hacker News · 2023-12
In 3Blue1Brown Calculus Blog Series
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