Re:Get Off My Desktop Windows Needs to Stop Showing Tabloid ...
by YurgenJurgensen on Monday March 27, 2023 @05:55AM
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If you need to be doing 'real number crunching', you probably shouldn't be using any spreadsheet. Excel is not MySQL or Jupyter.
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Re:Get Off My Desktop Windows Needs to Stop Showing Tabloid ...
by michaelt on Monday March 27, 2023 @06:49AM
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I think the Google Sheets devs would agree with you that spreadsheets shouldn't be used for anything serious. That's why it's missing such basic features as an X/Y scatter plot with a line - which is trivial in any other spreadsheet program.
Personally when I have a few dozen data points and I want an X/Y plot with a line, I find a spreadsheet is a better tool than MySQL.
Re:Get Off My Desktop Windows Needs to Stop Showing Tabloid ...
by anthk on Monday March 27, 2023 @08:37AM
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Gnuplot.
Re:Get Off My Desktop Windows Needs to Stop Showing Tabloid ...
by oneeyedpigeon on Monday March 27, 2023 @11:19AM
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Yup, I pretty much guarantee that Google Sheets is not intended for people who need X/Y scatter plots. I would theorise that 99% of Excel users don't require that feature either.
Re:Get Off My Desktop Windows Needs to Stop Showing Tabloid ...
by Takennickname on Monday March 27, 2023 @08:05AM
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MySQL and Jupyter don't have data visualization. Or are you saying the options are a) use google sheets, or b) learn to program
Re:Get Off My Desktop Windows Needs to Stop Showing Tabloid ...
by empyrrhicist on Monday March 27, 2023 @09:00AM
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Jupyter absolutely includes data visualization, or rather all the major languages it supports do. But honestly, yes. Complicated work in excel is programming, it's just completely undebuggable since the logic is spread out invisibly in multiple grid dimensions, sheets, and macros.
Give me a Jupyter notebook written in a language I don't yet know any day before you give me a complicated excel monstrosity.