Matt Mitchell must be a comic book enthusiast, as he created a superhero rating system on a spreadsheet which only a Marvel fan could understand. You might want to ask him how he derived all this data - or you might want to help him out, as he needs a collaborator to "put those numbers together and make the scores make sense".
| Site: | Unabashed |
| Page/Post: | Superhero Rating System |
| Spreadsheet: | Superhero Rating spreadsheet |
If you make the columns really narrow, you get a great knitting pattern template... So discovered an Austin, Texas Craigslist user who posted a spreadsheet example of such a knitting pattern. Comment here if you've ever done the same...
| Site: | Craigslist in Austin, Texas |
| Page/Post: | Knit anything lately? |
| Spreadsheet: | Knitting Pattern (Eye Patch) |
An Ohio-based comic collector and seller uses a spreadsheet to manage a public inventory which he can show on Craigslist - making it easier for buyers to see everything he has for sale in one page...
| Site: | CraigsList for Columbus, Ohio |
| Page/Post: | 1500 Comics |
| Spreadsheet: | Comic Book Inventory |
Geo-aware coin collectors commonly post their "trading lists" on the GeoCaching.com user forums (known as GroundSpeak). One user thouht it would be helpful to collect all these trading list URLs into a well organized spreadsheet. That spreadsheet is now like a navigation page to all the trading lists posted by users.
| Site: | Geocaching.com |
| Page/Post: | Trading List Post |
| Spreadsheet: | Geo-COIN Trading Lists |
I thought the prior beer tasting results spreadsheet we posted was just a cute, isolated example - but it seems to be a trend now. An active member/moderator of the Alcohol Report site - TrendKiller Z28 includes a link to a very well-populated Beer Listing spreadsheet in his signature... Last I looked, it had approximately 275 beers included! That's a lot of drinking...er... work!
Site: Alcohol Report
Page/Post: TrendKiller Z28's Profile
Spreadsheet: Beer List
We've seen this done before - using a spreadsheet to compare products or services. This one compares photo-sharing sites... with the caveat that it was posted on a SmugMug forum, so possibly biased... but the example is good (and the data may or may not be).
Site: Indirectly found on Digital Media Thoughts Forums
Page/Post: Photo Site Comparison
Spreadsheet: Photo Site Comparison Spreadsheet
Here's an idea that someone had - use a spreadsheet first to track their service record of their motorcycle... then publish that spreadsheet and link to it from his craigslist listing. Now that's transparency.
Site: Craigslist / Madison
Page/Post: 1980 Goldwing For Sale
Spreadsheet: 1980 Goldwing Service Record
If you know any rose gardeners, you know it can become quite a deep hobby. The ultimate level is actually hybridizing - growing new species by combining others. This is real genetic experimentation. The "ploidy database" is actually a set of spreadsheets showing stuff I can explain... I've included links to all 4 spreadsheets (which, arguably, should be distinct sheets within a single spreadsheet).
Site: Rose Hybridizers
Page/Post: Rose-Ploidy Database
Spreadsheets: diploids | Triploids | Tetraploids | Penta/Hexa/octoploids
Earthbox is the self-described "Worlds most revolutionary gardening system". It is a "maintenance-free, award-winning, high-tech growing system controls soil conditions, eliminates guesswork and more than doubles the yield of a conventional garden-with less fertilizer, less water and virtually no effort." In the Forums, there is a discussion and spreadsheet regarding the tracking of results from growing different species of Tomatoes. While their data set isn't extensive (1 row per sheet?), it still is an interesting example for those more daring to collect results collaboratively.
Site: Earthbox
Page/Post: Forum - BER Topic Revisited
Spreadsheet: BER Results for Tomatoes
Here's an interesting one... First, a great discussion with one user explaining to another (rather well) how to use spreadsheets to keep site data updated without worrying about html editing ("Yes, any changes you make to the spreadsheet (and publish) will be visible on the ScanMiamiValley.com web page without me having to do anything.")
Site: Scan Miami Valley
Page/Post: New Feeds Added
Spreadsheet: Frequencies, TalkGroups for Cuyahoga
