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I am personally a fan of Calca, not only does it do live coding, it can also do some powerful math: http://calca.io/
This article reminded me of an interesting video by Chris Granger, co-author of the Light Table code editor, titled "In Search of Tomorrow: What does programming look like in 10 years?" He's designing a visual/code block hybrid editor. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZQoAKJPbh8
I've been shifting a bunch of data analysis out of spreadsheets (and some adhoc SQL) to Jupyter/Pandas, and we've found some unexpected tradeoffs on both sides. The lack of testability and version control (and really, long-term maintainability) is what drove us out of spreadsheets into Jupyter. We've found though that the workflow in Jupyter, even with Pandas, is not great for exploring and getting a feel for data --…
Off-topic: how do people make those animated gifs like the one in the blog post ( https://stenci.la/stencila/blog/introducing-sheets/screencas... )?
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Sooner or later, all project management ends up in Excel. Doesn't matter what ticket or tracking tool you've paid for.
My experience has been that it always ends up in Google Docs. Collaboration in Docs is just so stupidly easy compared to emailing spreadsheets around. And yeah I've been through several cycles of this: start tracking in google docs, we'll get a system eventually. -> OK we have bought a new PM system, let's start using it. -> Everyone please start using the new system. Move your google docs there today. -> I ... why i…
BTW - another killer usecase would be an easy way to build database backed spreadsheets. instead of the TSV, it would be cool to figure out how to interface to postgresql for example.
hi - quick question. Is your Dockerfile open source ? We have been building an R powered backend for one of our analytics services and it's been a struggle getting a scalable R-based infrastructure going. BTW - another killer usecase would be an easy way to build database backed spreadsheets. instead of the TSV, it would be cool to figure out how to interface to postgresql for example.
Iteration on spreadsheets is great, and there's opportunity for tons of innovation in this space. But this suffers from the same problems that most spreadsheets have. Errors like not averaging over the right set of data (which you pointed out) don't come up because the code can't be diffed in git. They come up because there's not enough clarity in whether a set of cells are consistent or not. Making this text-based d…
Yes, you're right this doesn't solve all the issues with spreadsheets as a programming environment. The "averaging over the right data" is a big one, and yes, being able to diff a text file won't help that. Thanks a lot for the suggested syntax - it's really good to get some feedback. I need more time to think it through and work out exactly how this would work. In the meantime, one solution to the problem, that I wo…
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Warning: C10 has a range from A1:A9 but C9 only has B1:B8
hi - quick question. Is your Dockerfile open source ? We have been building an R powered backend for one of our analytics services and it's been a struggle getting a scalable R-based infrastructure going. BTW - another killer usecase would be an easy way to build database backed spreadsheets. instead of the TSV, it would be cool to figure out how to interface to postgresql for example.
Hey, yeah it's all open. The Dockerfile is here: https://github.com/stencila/stencila/blob/master/docker/ubun... I'm no expert, but it seems to be doing the job. Would appreciate any suggestions you might have! I'd like to make it smaller i.e. use a smaller base image.
however, I'm wondering if using Reactjs+Redux would not reduce the amount of js by many orders of magnitude. You would get all your reactive processing for free.
EDIT: your CPP code is quite cool ! But same comment there, you could probably use nodejs and npm packages to get this out of the box for free. for example - git.cpp -> https://www.npmjs.com/package/git, frame.cpp -> https://www.npmjs.com/package/dataframe, http-client -> https://github.com/mzabriskie/axios + https://github.com/petkaantonov/bluebird, etc.