Great series David. I can't tell you how many IT folks I've heard complain about Excel and their plans to kill it. What they don't understand is that the cell-based design of a spreadsheet like Excel makes it an easy to use, universal tool for analytics. By adding a semantic layer to Excel , we can avoid many of IT's "wild west" complaints while still allowing users to pick their analytics tool of choice (9 times out of 10: Excel!).
I wonder if there ever will be a better interface. Is it beloved because of its familiarity? Or so widely used because it simply is the best way to self-serve data exploration?
Every BI tool if ever seen has eventually had to embrace the grid/table component. And download to excel capability
Great series David. I can't tell you how many IT folks I've heard complain about Excel and their plans to kill it. What they don't understand is that the cell-based design of a spreadsheet like Excel makes it an easy to use, universal tool for analytics. By adding a semantic layer to Excel , we can avoid many of IT's "wild west" complaints while still allowing users to pick their analytics tool of choice (9 times out of 10: Excel!).
I wonder if there ever will be a better interface. Is it beloved because of its familiarity? Or so widely used because it simply is the best way to self-serve data exploration?
Every BI tool if ever seen has eventually had to embrace the grid/table component. And download to excel capability
At the rate AI is progressing I don’t think we’ll have time to make one.
We’ll just start trusting some system to advise us first.