I've shifted to Airbase for pretty much anything data sheet related. The ability to have more typical data-flow joins with an easier to manage UX that teaches folks along the way is pretty phenomenal. It grows as you need, but still remains relatively simple. It's one of my favorite pieces of software from the past decade.
Excel 2.0 – Is there a better visual data model than a grid of cells?
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Re: Excel 2.0 – Is there a better visual data model than a grid of cells?
#22I liked the way Apple did it in their Numbers clone of Excel - you can have multiple grids on a single page. It makes it a lot easier to have related data on the same page without fiddling with the row/column sizes to suite multiple types of data.
Numbers is deeply underrated.
Re: Excel 2.0 – Is there a better visual data model than a grid of cells?
#23in the metaverse, you will have 3d tables, x,y and z axis, you would be able to twist and turn those 3d tables to get different views, join with other 3d tables
Re: Excel 2.0 – Is there a better visual data model than a grid of cells?
#24Re: Excel 2.0 – Is there a better visual data model than a grid of cells?
#25"A spreadsheet is then the simplest, most organically natural way of organizing discrete units of information, the easiest way to perform CRUD operations on any type of data." So... you've basically answered the question here. "It’s been 40 years since the original Visicalc spreadsheet program was released, and no one has been able to beat them" There is a reason that columnar workbooks and spreadsheets have been aro…
Re: Excel 2.0 – Is there a better visual data model than a grid of cells?
#26in the metaverse, you will have 3d tables, x,y and z axis, you would be able to twist and turn those 3d tables to get different views, join with other 3d tables
Re: Excel 2.0 – Is there a better visual data model than a grid of cells?
#27Re: Excel 2.0 – Is there a better visual data model than a grid of cells?
#28It would make debugging, understanding and inspecting the dataflow easier, but it would probably make browsing the output a bit harder so I can't say it's an obvious slam dunk. Might be interesting though.
Re: Excel 2.0 – Is there a better visual data model than a grid of cells?
#29I've shifted to Airbase for pretty much anything data sheet related. The ability to have more typical data-flow joins with an easier to manage UX that teaches folks along the way is pretty phenomenal. It grows as you need, but still remains relatively simple. It's one of my favorite pieces of software from the past decade.
Airtable is great, but it's got more of Access than Excel in its genes imho.