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Douwe Osinga and Jack Amadeo were working together at Sidewalk Labs, Alphabet’s venture to build tech-forward cities, when they arrived at the conclusion that most spreadsheet software doesn’t scale ...

As a system and application engineer, I’ve saved countless hours by automating measurements with software such as LabVIEW. Although I’ve used it to build measurement applications, I’ve started to ...

Microsoft Excel remains a tool of choice for big data mavens, due to the numerous ways it can plug into third-party data sources and massage them with ease. Python, too, has become a go-to technology ...

You can write a Python program or use a Jupyter Notebook to do almost anything. But you can also get a lot of things done quickly using a spreadsheet. Grist is a “hacker’s” spreadsheet that merges ...