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Trevor Mills replied to Rafael Knuth's discussion What Is A Viable Use Case For Excel, And What Is Not?

"I think an undervalued benefit of Excel, especially in corporations both large and small, is its ability to easily and reliably share information. Users often prepare their data in Excel and then simply forward the file to the recipient. Recipients…"

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Arnuld commented on Rafael Knuth's blog post Advertising & Marketing Fundamentals For Data Scientists

"I am not a marketing guy, I am software developer turned data scientist, but I learned few things from your post, e.g. data science is basically a tool, questions are more important. Tools, software development, websites, data science, Artificial…"

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Gordon Uszkay replied to Rafael Knuth's discussion What Is A Viable Use Case For Excel, And What Is Not?

"Thanks for the open-minded view of Excel. We've had some great success in using Excel as a user interface platform, pulling data and pushing results into a DBMS back end. We use this as an alternative to a web front end if there are…"

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Vincent Granville replied to Rafael Knuth's discussion What Is A Viable Use Case For Excel, And What Is Not?

"While Excel is the tool that I use most, I am wondering why it is so slow when processing (say) one million rows. I use to code in Perl (and its ancestors, like C, which share the same DNA) but there are unexpected benefits about Excel that few…"

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Chris Meenan replied to Rafael Knuth's discussion What Is A Viable Use Case For Excel, And What Is Not?

"I found your article to be insightful. In my work we tend to use R, SAS and Excel. We are not giving up Excel anytime soon. My biggest issue with Excel is that its use is extremely personal. Everybody has their own way of…"

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What Is A Viable Use Case For Excel, And What Is Not?

Excel has become the de-facto spreadsheet tool for business users. It currently has approximately 500 million users, and it might have a bright future ahead."To a large extent, Excel (and the alike) democratized programming by making its power available to non-experts to solve their problems on their own. What will be the Excel of machine learning? Chances are it may just be ... Excel. It makes sense to collocate AI with the data." François Chollet, Artificial Intelligence Researcher and…See More

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Kim Powers commented on Rafael Knuth's blog post Is It Too Late For Me To Learn Coding?

"Thanks for another encouraging article! I am 41 and am learning to code at the same time my kids are. It is hard, but very rewarding when you begin to “get” it. In the technology revolution we are in the midst of, I want to keep learning…"

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John Williams commented on Rafael Knuth's blog post Advertising & Marketing Fundamentals For Data Scientists

"Awesome advice! I teach Marketing at a business school, and I'm thinking of making this post required reading for my classes."

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