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Nah. Spreadsheets are poor man's MapReduce. Most Excel tables I've seen aren't just data and presentation. It's computing the data as well as presenting it. A
by romwell 5y ago
Nah. Spreadsheets are poor man's MapReduce.
Most Excel tables I've seen aren't just data and presentation. It's computing the data as well as presenting it.
And how is the data computed?
* Applying formula to a row/column range to get another range
* Applying formula to a range to get a single-cell output out of it
Obviously, I am not talking about clustering and performance here, but a computational paradigm.
- CivBase 5y ago> Spreadsheets are poor man's MapReduce. Yes. Emphasis on "poor man's". Excel is mediocre at many things, but it's highly accessible so people use it anyways. That can be good or bad depending on the situation. Need to quickly crunch numbers for a small dataset? Excel is perfect. You can probably put something together quickly to get what you want. Need to maintain a contact tracing database? Not so great. Excel scales poorly and the low implementation cost isn't worth the limitations and risks.