Live data from Hacker News

Visualize data instantly with machine learning in Google Sheets

blog.google

1–10 of 112 posts

Re: Visualize data instantly with machine learning in Google Sheets

#4
I wonder if we will see more software including query based input like their charts, and what sort of speed improvement we could see? At first I was not excited to type something where I could click a couple buttons, but then I recognized the other enhancements such as applying a filter right away.

I'm not convinced it's better just because it has machine learning on the back end, but if excel would learn how I want my graphs made from how I manually adjust the graphs (adding axis labels and a title, color preferences, never a 3d bar or pie chart), that'd be a nice enhancement. I'm sure there's a setting, but I haven't searched for it.

Re: Visualize data instantly with machine learning in Google Sheets

#6
post #2

Oh, wow. I love where this is headed. Spreadsheets are one of the most abused products in a normal business--used for everything , and then some poor excel jockey ends up being forced to create a semblance of order from the chaos.

Someone needs to create Spreadsheets Anonymous and share the crazy stuff people do in Excel, the best one I've seen is a full GUI wizard (back, next etc.) in VBA.

Re: Visualize data instantly with machine learning in Google Sheets

#7
post #6
post #2

Oh, wow. I love where this is headed. Spreadsheets are one of the most abused products in a normal business--used for everything , and then some poor excel jockey ends up being forced to create a semblance of order from the chaos.

Someone needs to create Spreadsheets Anonymous and share the crazy stuff people do in Excel, the best one I've seen is a full GUI wizard (back, next etc.) in VBA.

[deleted]

Re: Visualize data instantly with machine learning in Google Sheets

#9

I thought Explore in google sheets has had this feature for awhile? I remember it suggesting visualizations in sheets a few months ago.

I've been using it for a while, too. I'm guessing it's been available in Enterprise/g suite, but is now rolling out to all users.

Re: Visualize data instantly with machine learning in Google Sheets

#10
Well charts is a good addon but just wanted to understand how they are able to do this ... i mean Machine Learning part , for example if somebody asks "Show me sales of X product in last year" , from machine learning perspective how this gets interpreted in actual SQL query ..
Post reply on HN