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Show HN: Dtab – Spreadsheet for Data Science

#1

Post by _7fvc » Fri, Oct 02, 2015, 3:49 PM UTC

Show HN: Dtab – Spreadsheet for Data Science
dtab.io

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#2

Post by codezero » Fri, Oct 02, 2015, 4:40 PM UTC

Looks neat, but currently getting a 503 error on one of the scripts in all the examples: https://rawgit.com/replit/jq-console/master/jqconsole.min.js

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#3

Post by sswezey » Fri, Oct 02, 2015, 4:46 PM UTC

This is already possibly with Google Spreadsheets albeit this is a much nicer interface.

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Post by timdorr » Fri, Oct 02, 2015, 4:56 PM UTC

codezero wrote: post #2

Looks neat, but currently getting a 503 error on one of the scripts in all the examples: https://rawgit.com/replit/jq-console/master/jqconsole.min.js

It should be on cdn.rawgit.com in production: https://rawgit.com/

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Post by SixSigma » Fri, Oct 02, 2015, 4:59 PM UTC

While I appreciate the idea....

Use Javascript to replace vba in excel

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/officeapps/archive/2013/03/18/excel-...

Use python to replace vba in excel

http://xlwings.org/

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Post by _7fvc » Fri, Oct 02, 2015, 5:01 PM UTC

codezero wrote: post #2

Looks neat, but currently getting a 503 error on one of the scripts in all the examples: https://rawgit.com/replit/jq-console/master/jqconsole.min.js

Thanks. Forgot to change to cdn version. Fixed now.

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Post by donpdonp » Fri, Oct 02, 2015, 5:04 PM UTC

while i dont have much of an opinion of js in a spreadsheet except "neat!", the website design and text is spot-on in that I understood in an instant what the project does! Kudos.

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Post by pikzen » Fri, Oct 02, 2015, 5:05 PM UTC

Every single spreadsheet software has been able to do this for years, but using Javascript makes it better amirite?

What makes this better than Excel (VBA, Python, probably half of the languages on the planet.), Libre Office, Google Spreadsheets, etc., aside from Javascript ? The only point I could see would be integrating this into a page, which is of dubious utility.

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Post by OmarIsmail » Fri, Oct 02, 2015, 5:06 PM UTC

Nice work!

I noticed that you're using a web-worker, does all the heavy lifting happen there and the main thread is used for purely rendering?

I'm noticing some lag when I just press enter into a cell twice (once to get into edit, and then again to get out). Any idea what's going on there (I'm interested technically)?

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Post by j2kun » Fri, Oct 02, 2015, 5:09 PM UTC

Can I drop in any .js file I want that defines appropriate functions?