As much as I hate to say this, Excel is king 👑
#databs 📊
#databs 📊
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Robert Yi
so what's the best BI tool at this point? have we reached any sort of consensus? #databs
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I find it very messy, debugging is harder than it needs to be, and do not get me started on dataset versioning.
I have automated out a number of Excel workflows using better tools in all of my orgs so far, but it is only a drop in the ocean compared to how many of them are out there.
(I understand Excel a lot from the community of malleable software, where it is cited as a quite perfect hybrid of structured data, an infinite canvas, and computing functions the user can customize)
https://bsky.app/profile/chinaramrutkar.com/post/3lba3ia72hc2i
I do not like using Excel, but that is irrelevant when I am forced to work with it.
Looking at that, another advantage that comes to my mind is "scratchpad-i-ness" - it‘s easy (often encouraged) to work bit by bit. You can see intermediate states and representations. Comfortable for explorative work.