Re:Stencila: An open source office suite for reproducible re...
by viraptor on Friday July 13, 2018 @11:04PM
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> Excel dies, let us suppose... What will these people come up with?
Ideally, excel with separated actual use cases, which the original app merges into one thing:
- data entry into tables
- auto-generated tables over some ranges (dates, counts)
- constants / described values (they end up on a side, sometimes in a named cell if you're lucky)
- presentation/report layer
I think Access did some good things, but is too close to be database to be comfortable. BI to is great for the last part, but it's a separate/expensive product.
Ideally, excel with separated actual use cases, which the original app merges into one thing:
- data entry into tables
- auto-generated tables over some ranges (dates, counts)
- constants / described values (they end up on a side, sometimes in a named cell if you're lucky)
- presentation/report layer
I think Access did some good things, but is too close to be database to be comfortable. BI to is great for the last part, but it's a separate/expensive product.