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I hate excel so much (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

But, if you're a power user doing a lot of complex data analytics, Excel is still the king.

Only if you refuse to learn SQL and do everything in a fraction of the time with way more functionality.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (3 children)

That works when you have access to a SQL database instead of a bunch of massive CSV files.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

cracks knuckles

import pandas as pd

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Now you’re speaking my language!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Not saying there's any reason to switch, but I believe you can load CSV's into sqlite.

Datasette would be something that I would try for CSV's as well, that seems like an interesting piece of technology I haven't had reason to use yet.

Finally there's always Jupiter Notebook and any respectable DataFrame-solution.

Not to knock spreadsheet-solutions too much - I certainly see their value and use them frequently - but if I had to do something that warranted writing VBA, I'd probably reach for a tool I could combine with some form of VCS like Git at least.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Importing CSV into SQL is trivial and gives you far more control than Excel can.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Jupyter gang, any other data scientists here?