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I think another question is that why isn't there a viable alternative to excel for this particular use case? Is there, perhaps, a market for niche spreadsheet
by lvturner 6y ago
I think another question is that why isn't there a viable alternative to excel for this particular use case?
Is there, perhaps, a market for niche spreadsheet applications that serve one particular market?
- hairofadog 6y agoI’ve been wishing for something like this lately in the apple ecosystem: sort of a “plain text” tabular editor that can handle large data sets. Numbers feels like it’s designed for presentations more than data crunching, and Excel (or at least the price of excel) would be overkill for my needs (which largely consists of data cleanup, spot-checking, and quick calculations). I’d happily pay for an IA-Writerish spreadsheet app. Edit: or maybe Sublime Text is more what I mean. In any case I’m hoping someone will pop in and say, “well why aren’t you Snappets!?” and then I’ll go buy a copy of Snappets.
- Legogris 6y agoNot exactly what you're asking for, but what about libreoffice?
- hairofadog 6y agoIt’s been a while since I fooled around with that. I’ll give it another look.
- bransonf 6y agoSee this Exchange thread [0] I personally use Table Tool for the most basic editing/collection. [0] https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/15946/free-csv-text-file-editor-for-mac-os-x https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/15946/free-csv-tex...
- brisance 6y agoHave you taken a look at Wizard? https://www.wizardmac.com/support.html https://www.wizardmac.com/support.html
- hairofadog 6y agoThanks, I'll check these all out!
- takluyver 6y agoEducated guesswork: this isn't one particular use case, but a whole bunch of use cases with one thing in common: gene names are put in a table. Excel is the familiar, ubiquitous tool for tabular data.
- jpindar 6y agoI'm sure there is, which is great for one's own use but you can't make everyone else use it.