Re: Why All Software Should Be Open Source

On 10/24/2024 6:38 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On 24 Oct 2024 19:09:09 GMT, rbowman wrote:
 

It's crazy the way people use Excel as a general purpose scratch pad and
organizer. I get RFPs as Excel documents that have absolutely nothing to
do with calculating cells.

 I like to use Jupyter as my “scratch pad”. It is also a key tool for those
doing data analysis at the professional level (i.e. beyond Excel).

You and Feeb sit in your home computer room and ignorantly imagine how the IT world works.
Virtually all professional data analysts and statisticians and decision scientists and engineers and mathematicians use Excel heavily.  Among other tools, of course.
It's rare for datasets to exceed Excel's (or other spreadsheet's) capacities.