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Re:Finance Pros Say You’ll Have to Pry Excel Out of Their Co... by klodolph on Thursday November 30, 2017 @05:02PM (#15820000)
I mean, end users also groan because the user experience for spreadsheets is far better than writing map reduce jobs. One is a skill that a large percentage of BS graduates have, another is a skill that a small percentage of CS graduates have.
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Re:Finance Pros Say You’ll Have to Pry Excel Out of Their Co... by jordanb on Thursday November 30, 2017 @07:19PM (#15820917)
You don't need to write map reduce jobs to access data in Hadoop. In fact, you can do it from excel:

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Connect-to-a-Hadoop...

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