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Just because your place of work doesn't follow best practice doesn't mean it is not possible.
I didn't say it wasn't possible, but in my environment it is not as feasible as the alternative. Creating a better solution is a lot easier than teaching everyone what a database is and why it's useful.
I like! One thing that I am hoping for however is some kind of notebook-like interface for doing small, ad-hoc data analysis projects. This looks fairly close to that. Mathematica pioneered "the computational notebook" concept, and now we have similar stuff with R/Rstudio, IPython/Jupyter, matlab, and jmp. Those are all really nice and powerful, but they're somewhat large in scope and very ambitious. It would be sooo…
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I didn't say it wasn't possible, but in my environment it is not as feasible as the alternative. Creating a better solution is a lot easier than teaching everyone what a database is and why it's useful.
Colaborative spreadsheets using Javascript is not the answer
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As the Show HN guidelines say: "When something isn't good, you needn't pretend that it is." But you also needn't trample over someone's freshly planted garden. Helpful criticism is fine. Asking a question is fine (a real question, not a gotcha one designed to make someone look bad); for example, one could ask "what do you mean when you say this is a new kind of spreadsheet?" Pointing out similarities to other work is…
I am uncomfortable with the line you're taking here. The sentence "javascript makes it better amirite" was a bit juvenile, but otherwise the comment was perfectly valid. We do not want to be forced to be positive about things which have serious flaws; this sort of kumbaya HN thought police makes this seem more like some sort of Christian summer camp than an environment for rational discussion.
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Well capable? Yes Pandas can do that but I think what you are talking about is you want a GUI tool? Everything about Pandas, IPython(Now Jupyter) and R (And the other data languages) are 100% about performing functions.
Yeah, I mean more as a GUI enhancement. It might be outside the scope of Jupyter, but I think it'd be neat to be able to treat DataFrames like a spreadsheet. Personally, I'm comfortable writing Python, but I bet you'd see more adoption for non-programmer academics who still need to work with data.
But an edit-able tabular data array (that was also accessible programmatically) would be really super.
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Yeah, I mean more as a GUI enhancement. It might be outside the scope of Jupyter, but I think it'd be neat to be able to treat DataFrames like a spreadsheet. Personally, I'm comfortable writing Python, but I bet you'd see more adoption for non-programmer academics who still need to work with data.
I doubt we will ever see the abandonment of spreadsheets LIKE WE SHOULD. Look at Open Refine you might really like it. http://lemire.me/blog/archives/2014/05/23/you-shouldnt-use-a...
Another shortcoming of spreadsheets is that they don't solve what I consider to be the Fundamental Problem of Programming: How to keep your sanity when your project gets bigger than one screen or one page. Of course programmers have lots of ways to deal with this, by creating named abstractions, subroutines, and so forth. It's why we can write million line programs today. But how it's solved in Excel seems incredibly clumsy by comparison. Of course you can adopt the conventions of programming by using Visual Basic, but that seems to occur quite rarely.
I like! One thing that I am hoping for however is some kind of notebook-like interface for doing small, ad-hoc data analysis projects. This looks fairly close to that. Mathematica pioneered "the computational notebook" concept, and now we have similar stuff with R/Rstudio, IPython/Jupyter, matlab, and jmp. Those are all really nice and powerful, but they're somewhat large in scope and very ambitious. It would be sooo…
Have you seen AirFlow before? I hooked a data scientist friend up with it dockerized, and he raves about it: http://nerds.airbnb.com/airflow/
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Have you seen AirFlow before? I hooked a data scientist friend up with it dockerized, and he raves about it: http://nerds.airbnb.com/airflow/
container image please
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Have you seen AirFlow before? I hooked a data scientist friend up with it dockerized, and he raves about it: http://nerds.airbnb.com/airflow/
container image please