Introducing Python in Excel: The Best of Both Worlds for Data Analysis and Visualization
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Today, we are excited to introduce the Public Preview of Python in Excel – making it possible to integrate Python and Excel analytics within the..

Microsoft has announced Excel will support Python::Python is one of the most popular programming languages today, loved by businesses and students alike and Excel is an essential tool to organize,

  • DocMcStuffin@lemmy.world
    12·
    1 year ago

    Microsoft has announced Excel will support Python in the cloud.

    I was excited for 5 seconds then sorely disappointed.

  • ramble81@lemm.ee
    3·
    1 year ago

    Can’t wait for the adhoc databases and applications that are critical to the business built on this…

  • bignavy@programming.devEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    When you do your job as a developer so good you have to allow users to use a whole programming language to get the functionality they need.

    Although this might speak to the abuses of excel in the business world more than the failures of excel, tbh. Maybe both?

    • zigmus64@lemmy.world
      6·
      1 year ago

      Well… a programming language has been attached to Excel for well more than a decade, maybe two. Visual Basic for Applications is there for user defined functions and otherwise. It’s just that VBA is old and clunky af, and there’s been a need for the integration of a more modern set of coding tools for a long while.