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Re:Finance Pros Say You’ll Have to Pry Excel Out of Their Co... by jimmcslim on Thursday November 30, 2017 @06:17PM (#15820557)
I also wonder if there is a middle way here... in encouraging greater use of interactive notebook computing such as that espoused by Mathematica, Jupyter Notebook, IPython, etc.
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Re:Finance Pros Say You’ll Have to Pry Excel Out of Their Co... by analog31 on Thursday November 30, 2017 @07:15PM (#15820892)
Man, I'd love to be able to edit tabular data within a Jupyter notebook. Every few months I look to see if this problem has been solved in a tolerable way.
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Re:Finance Pros Say You’ll Have to Pry Excel Out of Their Co... by d--b on Thursday November 30, 2017 @06:36PM (#15820666)
I strongly believe these are almost there. The interface is what sucks with notebooks. Code should be hidden, cells should be smaller so you can pack a lot more info in them. 2D organization of data is a lot more effective that a long 1D list of things.

I believe OnservableHQ has a good shot at it.

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