• Olap@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      Yup. And extra extra, excel can be beaten for specific examples with lots of extra tooling. But you know what that tooling will also do? Generate excel reports

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        7 months ago

        hmm generating static excel reports doesn’t sound bad, as long as these are used just as output format - basically a familiar GUI.

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          7 months ago

          Yeah, it is a good data dense gui, and is ubiquitous. But now it does python too! What a dreadful decision that was

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        7 months ago

        Generating a report using Excel as a format is a lot different from using Excel as a database.