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I've been interning at a power company since high school (I'm a junior in college now -- EE/CpE major) and one of the things I did was taking log data for a bunch of events in csv format, filtering the irrelevant data, and formatting it to make it more readable by humans. Since I had to repeat the process a bunch of times, I spent an hour or so writing an Excel macro that let me select a few examples of what was relevant and then proceeded to do all the hard work. I told my supervisor about it and she had me write up documentation for using the macro and then shared it with everyone in the department to save everyone's time.


That was one good manager!




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