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Excel? Is this serious? Edit: Reasons for downvotes, please? I have said nothing nonconstructive. I am seriously baffled as to why techies are still using

• HCIdivision17 13y ago
  Absolutely! Excel is ubiquitous, and is general purpose enough it can do essentially anything. Adding python to the power if an instant feedback and interactive data grid, and you've some serious Get Things Done horsepower for the average joe/tech/eng/manager/sales person.
• gruseom 13y ago
  "Is this serious?" is nonconstructive.
  • coherentpony 13y ago
    How so? I was genuinely unsure if this was a joke.
    • HCIdivision17 13y ago
      You're likely just a victim of Poe's Law then. There seems to be increasing sensitivity over middlebrow dismissal lately, and your comment is easily misunderstood as such. Also, ain't no one smack talks mah spreadsheets. Thems run the business (in the insanely non-ideal real world, for better or worse).
    • gruseom 13y ago
      "X? Is this serious?" typically signals sarcasm about X. I take it you didn't mean it that way. (Irrelevantly, I'm reminded of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziH9St7ajuw#t=39s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziH9St7ajuw#t=39s)
• HCIdivision17 13y ago
  And to reply to your edit: I hadn't thought of it as a database. The typical use I see is using Excel as a frontend for interacting with the database data. To be sure, people do use Excel as a DB, but I think it's handier to think of it as an interactive mesh than a DB. Sort of like how pandas with IPython is a great way to interact with and explore data. ... Dang, imagine if you had pandas running with Excel on top. That would probably be pretty cool.
• snake_plissken 13y ago
  What do you mean? Excel by it's nature of using rows and columns to store information is a database...