Re:Human genes renamed to stop Microsoft Excel from misreadi...
by prepend on Monday April 11, 2022 @09:33AM
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I consider myself pretty trained and still use Excel for “eyeballing” datasets of up to a million records.
There’s many times where I don’t want to do anything more than open, sort, filter, and never see the file again. And I’d like something better than Excel, but haven’t found it.
Maybe 70% the time, vi or BBEdit or shell commands work but otherwise excel.
For anything of significance, I use Python notebooks or dedicated data environment.
If there was a better tool, I think people would train. But there’s not, that I’m aware of, so Excel sticks around.
There’s many times where I don’t want to do anything more than open, sort, filter, and never see the file again. And I’d like something better than Excel, but haven’t found it.
Maybe 70% the time, vi or BBEdit or shell commands work but otherwise excel.
For anything of significance, I use Python notebooks or dedicated data environment.
If there was a better tool, I think people would train. But there’s not, that I’m aware of, so Excel sticks around.