Will anything better than Excel ever come, or is this the peak of humanity?

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Personally I think there are better automation options but Excel is very manual and when you go to something more automated we lose trust and maybe some of the benefits of having g to be in the weeds. I’m sure there are plenty of differing perspectives but that’s mine and it doesn’t mean I have the best one.

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If Excel is peak of humanity, then Trump is the peak of a human body

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HAHAHHHAHHA I just cried laughing because this is the winning comment.

I think we are stuck with Excel but hopefully AI will remove a lot of the need to spend hours trying to arrange data by quarters.

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Haha Prudential, I spend way too much time un-arranging my data from quarters in pivot tables and wish I could turn that off.

LibreOffice is pretty close, which I use at home. My work uses MS Office. Better than Excel? Smartsheets is pretty good, but I don't use it much, because it hasn't been approved by my employer and I don't have a use for it at home. If you know the formulas then you can put it in most spreadsheet apps. I don't like Google's version unless I have to use it. Functions similar, but the interface is less intuitive.

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Yes - power bi. Mainly because you can record data transformation steps, and edit your data workflows as required.

Excel remains top choice for quick & dirty analysis of straightforward data tables, though Google sheets is hard to beat for web integration functionality.

All imho, naturally. 20 odd years experience as a GIS data analyst.

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What do you suppose Sheets, Tableau, PowerBI, JASP, Python, and Data Analysis in Chat GPT 4o are?

Power Bi?

Smartsheet is also a powerful tool support automation and integration with external sources and AI features for better collaboration

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