UK Social research job to suit Excel programmer (not necessarily VBA)

[William Park]

Duncan Smith <buzzard at urubu.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> "Peter Hansen" <peter at engcorp.com> wrote in message
> news:40B8991F.4010207 at engcorp.com...
> > Duncan Smith wrote:
> >
> > > http://www.man.ac.uk/news/vacancies/research.html#581
> >
> > Sorry, but what's the connection to Python?
> 
> There is (I am told) a significant amount of work automating Excel.
> Unfortunately this isn't clear from the job description (I didn't
> write it).  I know from experience that this can be achieved admirably
> using Python (and Mark Hammond's extensions).  Personally I would like
> to see the work done in Python, but that depends on who applies and
> whether those who make the decisions can be convinced that it's an
> appropriate language (well, moreso than VBA).  It's certainly not a
> full-time programming job (due to the social science / modelling
> component), but it does need someone who can write good maintainable
> code.

Bash, Awk, Python are all good tools, and Math/Engineering would be good
background to have.  But, this is job for local undergraduate students,
not outside programmer or consultants. :-)

-- 
William Park, Open Geometry Consulting, <opengeometry at yahoo.ca>
Slackware -- because I can type.