Re:Stop Using Excel, Finance Chiefs Tell Staffs
by walterbell on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @08:28AM
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Have you seen Treesheets, http://strlen.com/treesheets/?
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Re:Stop Using Excel, Finance Chiefs Tell Staffs
by microcolonel on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @08:34AM
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That's quite cool, thanks for the link. Tables seem to be a more popular model for finance and similar, but it's always interesting to see new data models like this.
This could allow for more interesting things like gathering fields from records into a meta-table from a relational DB, that would definitely be a valuable next step.
Re:Stop Using Excel, Finance Chiefs Tell Staffs
by flarg on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @08:37AM
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Was minorly obsessed with this a couple of years ago. Is very interesting but ultimately lacks a lot that could make it useful
Re:Stop Using Excel, Finance Chiefs Tell Staffs
by rakoo on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @08:48AM
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Out of curiosity, what's missing from it ? I've been meaning to use it but still haven't found actual uses, I'd love to see what others do with it.
Re:Stop Using Excel, Finance Chiefs Tell Staffs
by flarg on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @01:30PM
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Mathematical functions, easy formatting, and more anything a purpose. Basically it does thinga you don't want a spreadsheet to do. It's more akin to a mind mapper and there are easier to use tools for that.
Re:Stop Using Excel, Finance Chiefs Tell Staffs
by walterbell on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @10:11AM
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It’s a good foundation for future open-source development, uses wxWidgets toolkit for cross-platform desktops. Author has graphics background, now busy at BigCo.