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Rows 2.0: The easiest way to use data on a spreadsheet

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Re: Rows 2.0: The easiest way to use data on a spreadsheet

#22

You guys are completely hosed I’m afraid, tomorrow I’m unveiling my competing project ‘columns 3.0’. We would have beat you to market but we’re big fans of late materialization.

column.com is a Bank as a service API haha I tried to apply to them but heard nothing back, they seem super cool, not sure about columns!

Re: Rows 2.0: The easiest way to use data on a spreadsheet

#24

Anybody know of a decent process embeddable spreadsheet engine, not web embedded in website embedding, but linked in process. Ideally C++. I ended up taking sc-im codebase and wrestling with it to embed it in a system. Old school I know but it works.

Python’s pandas. Or Apache Arrow (more data structure, but with some calc capabilities). Granted, they’re not spreadsheets per se. Rather, they’re dataframe-centric programming.

Not really what I mean. Spreadsheet implements a generic formula evaluation engine that triggers updates on value changes efficiently.

Re: Rows 2.0: The easiest way to use data on a spreadsheet

#25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Rows by any other name is still rows.

But would rows by any other name compress as sweet?

I'm crushing all you people with my 4d column spreadsheet. rows on rows on rows on rows. Boom!

Re: Rows 2.0: The easiest way to use data on a spreadsheet

#28
I often wonder about products like this. It seems to me that access solved many of these problems years ago then just faded away. I don't know why, I don't know why these are better either. Other than being collaborative and in the cloud. Those are huge benefits but why didn't access carry on to the cloud?

I feel like I'm missing some understanding of the low code space.

I'd like to learn these tools one day to allow me to rapidly put together CRUD apps but every CRUD app I build seems to have some edge case that would not be a good fit. So I carry on the old fashioned way. I'm sure I'm wasting time manually plumbing data between the database and the front end but oh well.

Re: Rows 2.0: The easiest way to use data on a spreadsheet

#29

Anybody know of a decent process embeddable spreadsheet engine, not web embedded in website embedding, but linked in process. Ideally C++. I ended up taking sc-im codebase and wrestling with it to embed it in a system. Old school I know but it works.

Would Excel interop work? It's not in the same process and horribly inefficient but will always result in Excel compatible spreadsheets.

https://www.chriswirz.com/software/excel-cpp-2019

Re: Rows 2.0: The easiest way to use data on a spreadsheet

#30
I'm sorry but you have to improve on the very first example that you are using to showcase your stuff. What is a graph supposed to tell me where the X axis goes from pages per session to avg time per page? Why are there continuous lines connecting quantities that somehow seem to change units?!

Unconvincing.

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