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From: Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: alt.comp.os.windows-11,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: The problem with not owning the software
Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2025 02:32:28 -0000 (UTC)
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Jan 2025 12:09:24 -0000 (UTC), Chris wrote:
> 
>> LO should have stopped copying excel long ago and taken its users to a
>> better spreadsheet experience.
> 
> Actually, it already did. Note recommendation in this research paper
> <https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008984>,
> that if you really must use a spreadsheet to work with important data,
> at least make it LibreOffice Calc and not Microsoft Excel.

LO must have changed their behaviour as when I tested this many years ago
when working with genomic data it behaved the same as excel. I noticed
recently that excel finally has a toggle for date recognition and
conversion. Which is way, way too late as it is a moot issue as the
problematic gene names have officially been changed to circumvent excel:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-020-0669-3

>> LO should work with Posit and build a proper analytical/statistical data
>> platform based around R.
> 
> We have that, too. It’s called Jupyter <https://jupyter.org/>.

Not user-friendly enough.