The pivot table, the spreadsheet's most powerful tool (2020)

Re:The pivot table, the spreadsheet's most powerful tool (2020) by airstrike on Monday October 09, 2023 @12:08PM (#37821849)

Yup. That's what I want to build. Thank you for saying that -- I feel like it really validates my feelings hah

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Re:The pivot table, the spreadsheet's most powerful tool (2020) by fiddlerwoaroof on Monday October 09, 2023 @12:21PM (#37821990)

The problem is always this project turns into “let’s build excel or tableau” and the customers that care usually already use one or the other.

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Re:The pivot table, the spreadsheet's most powerful tool (2020) by airstrike on Monday October 09, 2023 @12:39PM (#37822215)

That's fair, but fortunately I'm not planning on doing either. (Well, I am still implementing ~all of Excel's formulas for compatibility, but not the the UI/UX...)

People don't really consume data, they read documents. I think that's (part of) the vision these projects lack.

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Re:The pivot table, the spreadsheet's most powerful tool (2020) by amcaskill on Monday October 09, 2023 @01:39PM (#37823022)

I'm working on an OSS BI tool focused on a document form factor. Might be of interest to you. https://github.com/evidence-dev/evidence

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Re:The pivot table, the spreadsheet's most powerful tool (2020) by airstrike on Monday October 09, 2023 @02:52PM (#37823856)

Thank you! Definitely interesting! I had actually starred that repo when I saw it being discussed on some HN thread a week or two ago

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Re:The pivot table, the spreadsheet's most powerful tool (2020) by fiddlerwoaroof on Monday October 09, 2023 @04:43PM (#37825257)

Yeah, I misread the post I replied to: I’ve been on a bunch of internal dashboard projects that were in danger of losing focus and turning into full-fledged visualization platforms.

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