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as a warning, I've heard that the big spreadsheet makers considered this and eventually passed on the idea. I believe the logic is that spreadsheet users don't
by Nalta 5y ago
as a warning, I've heard that the big spreadsheet makers considered this and eventually passed on the idea. I believe the logic is that spreadsheet users don't understand ML, and if you want to do ML, you probably know how to export a spreadsheet.
- giardini 5y agoA significant amount of ML work is done in Excel with more on the way. For example, see the book "Data Smart: Using Data Science to Transform Information into Insight" by John W. Foreman. There oughtta be a "law" about this; something like "Every software system eventually has an Excel implementation" or such.
- cybersvenn 5y ago"If Excel can't solve your problem, it's not a problem"
- janhenr 5y agoHi Nalta! Thank you for your advice. We noticed that indeed most spreadsheet users do not do well with ML logic - as they are used to Excel functions, which have an input -> output structure (not validation cycles, hyperparam optimization etc.). We are building an AutoML engine, exactly for this reason - to indeed take everything "ML" away for spreadsheet users. Our ultimate goal is to turn ML literally into an Excel function. Super challenging problem, but really exciting at the same time :).