• Question: how many things to you roughly create a year?

    Asked by PoppyTopping to Matthew, Neil, Paula, Pete, Philippa on 11 Mar 2015.
    • Photo: Neil Taylor

      Neil Taylor answered on 11 Mar 2015:

      Hi!

      Hmm, this is an interesting question – I think it really depends on what you count as”things”! What I make most of are “spreadsheets”. A spreadsheet is a made using computer software. It that allows you to program in lots of equations and then use the power of the computer to calculate the answers. It can then show you some really nice graphs of your data to give you something that you can look at!

      You may have heard of a popular piece of spreadsheet software called Microsoft Excel. It can take a long time to create a large spreadsheet in software like Excel, but it makes the task many times faster than doing it by hand!

      So the spreadsheet is the place that you do all the working in order to solve a problem, or analyse some data. Because that’s what I need to do on a daily basis to prove that subsea pipelines are safe, I need to create many spreadsheets in a year! It would be really hard to put a number on how many, but I’d guess that it would be in the hundreds!

      I suppose that I also create other things like solutions to problems and ideas of how to do things better. How often I “create” these really depends on how challenging the problems I’m trying to solve are.

      Hope this helps!

    • Photo: Pete Symons

      Pete Symons answered on 11 Mar 2015:

      Hi PoppyTopping,

      The only things I physically create are reports for my customers. The content of the reports is the main thing which is a record of the work carried out, the analysis that took place the results and the conclusions, much like a technical report you might write at school.

      I currently work on 4 different project, A400M (Large Transport Aircraft), UK Air Defence (Radars and IT to show enemies), Military Flying training aircraft. These will all be projects I will be involved on for the rest of the year.

    • Photo: Philippa Jefferis

      Philippa Jefferis answered on 13 Mar 2015:

      Hi,

      I am the same as the other, as I work in the Consulting rather than the Operative side of the business. As such I sit in the office and design things for other people to then go ahead and create. I tend to use spreadsheets a lot for my calculations, but also do some by hand as it helps me make sure the computer is doing what I think it is.

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