What's the most random thing you used Excel for outside of work?

I normally use it for budgeting and purchases, but lately I had some time and a while back for a class I had about 70 or so friends take the test / tell me their MBTI personality results. The results were pretty interesting, but not so much before I realized how sad this was. Anyways, most random thing you used excel for? I recall one of the main characters in The Big Short kept a spreadsheeet of all the sushi places in New York and his ratings of them.

 
Going Concern:
I have a giant movie spreadsheet with virtually every film I've ever seen and want to see, with various data points, filters, conditional formatting, the works. It's pretty nice.

Check out Foundd (no typo, free web/ios app). I had a similar excel file, but started using them lately. Essentially it does exactly the same in addition to movie suggestions based on your historical data.

 
<span class=keyword_link><a href=/resources/skills/finance/going-concern>Going Concern</a></span>:
I have a giant movie spreadsheet with virtually every film I've ever seen and want to see, with various data points, filters, conditional formatting, the works. It's pretty nice.

Well, this is just unfair. You gotta hook it up, bro!

 

Defintely a spreadsheet of my tuition bill

I like to keep track of how much money I'll have to pay during the year as well as how much aid i'll be receiving.

Also i've helped some family friends out, get a preview of their car payments prior to purchasing, how much money must be contrubuted towards down payment in order to pay X amount a month at Y interest. Pretty basic stuff.

 
JDimon:
Have a simple spreadsheet that keeps track of my poker wins and losses

so do my friends and I some of them who play significantly often even account for the amount of time played, location/venue, stakes, type of game,...etc. and just calculate hourly win/loss rate at a specific game/stake at a specific venue and analyze their habits and trends

some of them look more like accounting income statements at a glance from far away

 

-Personal monthly and annual budget with income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow statement -Model that forecasts growth of all investments I own and debt repayment schedule -Spreadsheet of all material things I want to own someday with prices for each item -List of all my professional contacts divided by industries that tracks all the activity with them -About a dozen models for potential ventures I am thinking to start someday

 

I have a spreadsheet to keep track of my golf handicap. It lets me select the course from a drop down and then a second drop down will provide the tee locations (forward, middle, back; red, white, blue, black) for the selected course.That was the part that took me the longest to figure out, but eventually I got it. This spreadsheet has saved me a few times when my official handicap record with GHIN was accidentally deleted.

 

Not outside of work, but the guys (including VP) at my old firm made a spreadsheet using sophisticated formulae and statistics to determine how probable it would be to bang the women in our office. Variables included relationship status, attractiveness, friendliness, rumours etc. and it was sent around to all the men and each person made additions and tweaks. Turned out to be quite accurate.

 

A consulting friend of mine did a catalog of her wardrobe. Still haven't heard anything better than that. Personally, I DCF'd myself once. May have gotten aggressive with the assumptions.

"There are three ways to make a living in this business: be first, be smarter, or cheat."
 

I have a model that I use to value players in my fantasy football league and create my draft order. Last year was my first year using it and I won the league (12-team) and this year i'm the #2 seed in the playoffs (12-team again).

 
trisomy18:
I have a model that I use to value players in my fantasy football league and create my draft order. Last year was my first year using it and I won the league (12-team) and this year i'm the #2 seed in the playoffs (12-team again).

Haha impressive

I don't throw darts at a board. I bet on sure things. Read Sun-tzu, The Art of War. Every battle is won before it is ever fought- GG
 

Had to create a spreadsheet to track my mother's bandwidth use. After being introduced to TV streaming sites she managed to blow through 75 gigs a month.

Morpheus: Have you ever had a dream, Neo, that you were so sure was real? What if you were unable to wake from that dream? How would you know the difference between the dream world and the real world?
 
Going Concern:
honeyoak87:
Had to create a spreadsheet to track my mother's bandwidth use.

You seem like a nice guy so I won't say something dirty, but...

Don't put your hand on the holster without intending to pull the trigger. Write something creative/funny and related to WSO, not just "your mom watches midget porn".

Morpheus: Have you ever had a dream, Neo, that you were so sure was real? What if you were unable to wake from that dream? How would you know the difference between the dream world and the real world?
 
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Used to have a list of people to contact with follow up comments, etc. when I was looking for a job Had some outside-of-the-classroom fun in College with a BAC level spreadsheet that a professor provided Used to have my monthly budget in excel before I learned about mint.com (11235813 - Foundd seems like a very good find) Made a DCF/IRR on myself - if I go to b-school I will need some really aggressive assumptions to get my IRR to respectable levels. There are some amusing and interesting ready made banker/hedge funder DCFs that, I've found on WSO
Have a list/roulette of the best NYC restaurants and joints to eat at (including the 53d street guys back when they were good) Showed my dad what he's really getting into when buying an apartment w/ w.o. mortgage. I think it was the first time he cought a glimpse of a vague idea of what I do for living Use spreadsheets to figure out in which notes to invest on LendingClub faster Use a spreadsheet for the last European and World Cup brackets (won them both) Liked what this guy did: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2131808/David-Merkur-dating-s…

 
bitter_bob:
I also have the golf handicap tracker, but added a few features to mine. My sheet also tracked fairways hit, greens in regulations, number of putts per hole, up and downs, etc.

Golf sabermetrics? That's probably a good idea if you want to truly know where to focus your practice efforts. I may start doing this myself.

"There are three ways to make a living in this business: be first, be smarter, or cheat."
 
bitter_bob:
I also have the golf handicap tracker, but added a few features to mine. My sheet also tracked fairways hit, greens in regulations, number of putts per hole, up and downs, etc.

Yeah, I forgot to add that I added those columns as well. On the top of the sheet I have high/low/average for score and averages for putts, fairways, and GIRs. There is also a handicap calculator that gives you a course handicap when you input the course slope.

 

Right now I'm working on a spreadsheet that will put out a bunch of key statistics on each team in march madness then should ultimately decide who has the better chance of winning. I hope to finish it this weekend and then spend next week back testing/tweaking it.

 

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