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Python works for data scientists, but the people who use Excel are not all data scientists. Python and Excel are as comparable as apples and oranges. They're bo
by freehunter 9y ago
Python works for data scientists, but the people who use Excel are not all data scientists. Python and Excel are as comparable as apples and oranges. They're both fruit, but that's literally all they have in common.
- angry_octet 9y agoPeople are looking for something better than Excel though, particularly for teams. Raw python won't work, it would be a chaos of copy pasted receipes and voodoo... VBA is bad enough. The spreadsheet model could be leveraged, but without free form tables and formula repetition. I'm torn about whether allowing explicit recursion or iteration is a good idea. It would have to include a visionary visual debugger.
- guilhas 9y agoYes. But one of the arguments, in my previous company, for Excel over LO Calc, was speed for lots of data, data sources speed... With more tooling around the end user data will be less and more clean/prepared.