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While impressive in terms of a technical achievement, Excel is a pretty appalling analysis tool generally. I fear for what it will turn into when you throw this
by Fomite 13y ago
While impressive in terms of a technical achievement, Excel is a pretty appalling analysis tool generally. I fear for what it will turn into when you throw this much at it. Big Data doesn't let you power through being wrong.
- karamazov 13y agoThis is aimed at people doing simple analyses on massive sets of data, which can work extremely well. [1] We're not advocating that people without a data science background start doing ML or something. [1] See "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data", by Peter Norvig, Alon Halevy, and Fernando Pereira at Google.
- Fomite 13y agoWhich is why I'm not besmirching your technical achievement as much as...Excel is widely abused by the ignorant, Big Data is widely abused by the ignorant...Hadoop in Excel...