In-house DX starts with today's Excel! Wednesday Edition: 'The Role of MR in the AI Era' (14)

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◎ This edition's 'Focus on This! Medical Topics' (from 2:22) is about Japan's 'medical research capabilities'.
◎ Wednesday feature 'The Role of MR in the AI Era' (from 3:24), this time the theme is 'In-house DX starts with Excel'.
◎ Free talk (from 10:41)

In-house DX might start with you

When you hear 'DX,' you might imagine large-scale system implementations or company-wide projects. However, the entry point is much closer to home.

For example, the Excel file you are creating today.

Documents with neat colors, borders, and merged cells look easy to read and helpful to the human eye. On the other hand, the moment you start using them for aggregation, analysis, or AI, the meaning represented only by merged cells, line breaks, and colors can become a major obstacle.

It looks beautiful, but it requires decoding for the person who uses it later. In this episode, we jokingly call such Excel files 'God-tier Excel' (Kami-Excel) and think about how to store data in a way that is necessary for the AI era.

Put one piece of information in one cell. Align headings. Record status as text, not colors. Separate documents for printing from data for aggregation. A few small adjustments might significantly reduce tomorrow's manual work.

Also, July 15th is the day the Rosetta Stone was discovered. Information is not useful just by existing. It only gains value when it is left in a form that later readers can understand.

This applies not only to Excel but also to the interview records and handovers left by MRs.

In-house DX does not necessarily start from a distant specialized department. It might start with the one table you create today or the one record you leave behind.

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https://nk.jiho.jp/article/303725