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Re:The Tyranny of Spreadsheets by CJefferson on Thursday July 22, 2021 @06:32PM (#27925169)
Jupyter is a joke compared to spreadsheets, it doesn't auto-recalculate when you edit cells.
Re:The Tyranny of Spreadsheets by wibblewobble123 on Thursday July 22, 2021 @08:17PM (#27925911)
Observable does. So does Julia’s Pluto.jl.

You’re not paying attention to the space but recalculating notebooks are gaining popularity.

Re:The Tyranny of Spreadsheets by CJefferson on Friday July 23, 2021 @03:27AM (#27928137)
Things are getting better. I was aware of them, but jupyter is the 600 pound gorilla in this area.

I wouldn't use observable, as you are tied to their web service, and I've had too many companies close to use such a service for important data. Pluto is promising, but (I believe?) Only supports Julia, which is growing but still not that popular, or known.

Re:The Tyranny of Spreadsheets by goatlover on Thursday July 22, 2021 @07:42PM (#27925675)
True, but you have access to whatever Python libraries are installed, and your output is web-based. So you can potentially output anything a browser can display, including interactive 3D graphics and widgets. You also have access to the command line in Jupyter, so you can run whatever shell commands you like.
Re:The Tyranny of Spreadsheets by FabHK on Friday July 23, 2021 @01:26PM (#27933315)
Not only that, it doesn't even keep track of the calculation graph, so it doesn't know what needs calculating, or in which order to calculate.
Re:The Tyranny of Spreadsheets by TremendousJudge on Thursday July 22, 2021 @07:16PM (#27925476)
yeah, and also it's 1-dimensional; you can only go up or down, never to the right
Re:The Tyranny of Spreadsheets by goatlover on Thursday July 22, 2021 @07:44PM (#27925692)
Because the data is inside a data structure like a table or dictionary that you can output, iterate and map over however you like with the various Python and library methods or functions.