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On 10/24/2024 6:38 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> On 24 Oct 2024 19:09:09 GMT, rbowman wrote:
> 
>> It's crazy the way people use Excel as a general purpose scratch pad and
>> organizer. I get RFPs as Excel documents that have absolutely nothing to
>> do with calculating cells.
> 
> I like to use Jupyter as my “scratch pad”. It is also a key tool for those
> doing data analysis at the professional level (i.e. beyond Excel).


You and Feeb sit in your home computer room and ignorantly imagine how 
the IT world works.

Virtually all professional data analysts and statisticians and decision 
scientists and engineers and mathematicians use Excel heavily.  Among 
other tools, of course.

It's rare for datasets to exceed Excel's (or other spreadsheet's) 
capacities.