Stencila: An open source office suite for reproducible research
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Re: Stencila: An open source office suite for reproducible research
#2tl;dr - an interactive notebook, that accepts Jupyter files, for folks who usually use MS Office.
From their FAQ:
> Stencila allows you collaborate with colleagues who use other tools than RMarkdown and Jupyter Notebook, without you having to give up your favourite tool. Stencila Coverters make it possible to open documents in various formats (R Markdown - Rmd, Jupyter Notebook - ipynb and so on) in Stencila. The conversion is lossless for all interactive parts (such as code cells).
Nice to see dat part of the conversation.
Re: Stencila: An open source office suite for reproducible research
#3tl;dr - an interactive notebook, that accepts Jupyter files, for folks who usually use MS Office. From their FAQ: > Stencila allows you collaborate with colleagues who use other tools than RMarkdown and Jupyter Notebook, without you having to give up your favourite tool. Stencila Coverters make it possible to open documents in various formats (R Markdown - Rmd, Jupyter Notebook - ipynb and so on) in Stencila. The con…
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Re: Stencila: An open source office suite for reproducible research
#4Not sure why that page does not include a link (that I can find anyway) to this intro video that the creator, Michael Aufreiter, put together:
Re: Stencila: An open source office suite for reproducible research
#5This looks interesting. I'm actually rather surprised at the lack of quality in most open source 'office' alternatives. I'm not sure why, but open/libreoffice is almost unusable for heavy duty office work. Microsoft products are the clear winners if you require productivity and stability. I really hope that changes soon, because I feel it's a major factor that holds back widespread Linux adoption.
Re: Stencila: An open source office suite for reproducible research
#6tl;dr - an interactive notebook, that accepts Jupyter files, for folks who usually use MS Office. From their FAQ: > Stencila allows you collaborate with colleagues who use other tools than RMarkdown and Jupyter Notebook, without you having to give up your favourite tool. Stencila Coverters make it possible to open documents in various formats (R Markdown - Rmd, Jupyter Notebook - ipynb and so on) in Stencila. The con…
Those coverters are really good for undercover work.
Re: Stencila: An open source office suite for reproducible research
#7This looks interesting. I'm actually rather surprised at the lack of quality in most open source 'office' alternatives. I'm not sure why, but open/libreoffice is almost unusable for heavy duty office work. Microsoft products are the clear winners if you require productivity and stability. I really hope that changes soon, because I feel it's a major factor that holds back widespread Linux adoption.
I'm not sure why, but open/libreoffice is almost unusable for heavy duty office work.
What do you define as "heavy duty office work"? What would make OpenOffice more suitable to you needs? Asking as an AOO contributor. I'm genuinely curious to know what you think the project is lacking or how it needs to be improved.
Re: Stencila: An open source office suite for reproducible research
#8This looks interesting. I'm actually rather surprised at the lack of quality in most open source 'office' alternatives. I'm not sure why, but open/libreoffice is almost unusable for heavy duty office work. Microsoft products are the clear winners if you require productivity and stability. I really hope that changes soon, because I feel it's a major factor that holds back widespread Linux adoption.
I'm not sure why, but open/libreoffice is almost unusable for heavy duty office work. What do you define as "heavy duty office work"? What would make OpenOffice more suitable to you needs? Asking as an AOO contributor. I'm genuinely curious to know what you think the project is lacking or how it needs to be improved.
Firstly, I would like to thank you for your work. Open office has served me very well during my school and university days.
Since joining the world of work, I've struggled with the following:
- Random crashes every couple of hours when files become large. Especially in Impress and Calc.
- I do a lot of diagrams in OODraw. Sometimes I'll reopen the file to find arrows and connectors have moved.
- The interface could be more intuitive. For example, the colour selector is limited and clunky, as is the gradients widget. Why can't we add any colour we like without going to the options menu?
- Application speed is slow when files get large, especially Calc. I've even tried increasing memory per object.
- Filtering and sorting in Calc not as fully featured or easy to use as Excel.
- Conditional formatting not as easy to use.
- Calc shortcuts not as easy to use as Excel (eg, I don't think there's an easy way to select a column without a mouse, or transpose a selection, or remove blanks etc etc). With Excel, I can pretty much achieve most things without touching a mouse (I'm an ex investment banker, and we get pretty familiar with the keys). OO seems to lack these critical shortcuts.
- Poor documentation of OO scripting environment. It's tough to figure out how to automate simple things in Calc.
This is not an exhaustive list, but it's all I can think of currently.
Again, I am very supportive of the AOO/LO effort, but I wished it would start giving Microsoft more competition in the power user category.
Thanks!
Re: Stencila: An open source office suite for reproducible research
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not sure why, but open/libreoffice is almost unusable for heavy duty office work. What do you define as "heavy duty office work"? What would make OpenOffice more suitable to you needs? Asking as an AOO contributor. I'm genuinely curious to know what you think the project is lacking or how it needs to be improved.
Firstly, I would like to thank you for your work. Open office has served me very well during my school and university days. Since joining the world of work, I've struggled with the following: - Random crashes every couple of hours when files become large. Especially in Impress and Calc. - I do a lot of diagrams in OODraw. Sometimes I'll reopen the file to find arrows and connectors have moved. - The interface could b…
- I do a lot of diagrams in OODraw. Sometimes I'll reopen the file to find arrows and connectors have moved.
Interesting. I use Draw a lot and haven't had that hit me yet. Any chance I could convince you to post something about this to the AOO mailing list, or open an issue in Jira about it? (that is, assuming there isn't already an issue for this).
Poor documentation of OO scripting environment. It's tough to figure out how to automate simple things in Calc.
Agreed. I just went through that exercise myself, when I was working on a thing at work to use the Jira API to query stories, and pull stuff into a spreadsheet for analysis. I was able to figure it out, but it wasn't easy. From what I've seen, the information is all there, but it's not necessarily organized / accessible enough. There's also not enough tutorial format stuff. Hopefully I can write up some stuff based on my recent experience and get it out there.
but I wished it would start giving Microsoft more competition in the power user category.
Same here. I have a laundry list of things I'd like to try and add to Calc to make it more powerful for complex analytics and what-not, but I am so busy on other projects I haven't had time to pursue those ideas much.
Re: Stencila: An open source office suite for reproducible research
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not sure why, but open/libreoffice is almost unusable for heavy duty office work. What do you define as "heavy duty office work"? What would make OpenOffice more suitable to you needs? Asking as an AOO contributor. I'm genuinely curious to know what you think the project is lacking or how it needs to be improved.
Firstly, I would like to thank you for your work. Open office has served me very well during my school and university days. Since joining the world of work, I've struggled with the following: - Random crashes every couple of hours when files become large. Especially in Impress and Calc. - I do a lot of diagrams in OODraw. Sometimes I'll reopen the file to find arrows and connectors have moved. - The interface could b…
> investment banker
As someone who was a software engineer in a brokerage and had to deal with clients excel sheets: open/libre office not letting you do that is a feature.
We would be given excel sheet that would depend on a specific version of Excel. We had sheets in the hundreds of megabytes. We had sheets that would take overnight to run. We had sheets with sheet dependencies. We had sheets that needed to be run in a specific order manually. We had sheets with 13,000 manually entered rows, each with 53 columns.
These things, and I use the term thing since eldritch abominations does not convey the horror of using them, were responsible for investing hundreds of millions of dollars.
The day excel dies is a day I will celebrate.