excel_as_code
Blog on excel as code (by GavinMendelGleason)
| excel_as_code | owid-content | |
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| 5 | 1 | |
| 118 | 10 | |
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| 0.0 | 9.7 | |
| over 2 years ago | 3 days ago | |
| Python | ||
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
excel_as_code
Posts with mentions or reviews of excel_as_code.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-09-20.
- A Discussion of Excel as Code
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Excel has the greatest range of product adoption
Interesting Excel as Code article that was on the front page of hacker news this week that makes a bunch of these points: https://github.com/GavinMendelGleason/excel_as_code
- Excel as Code
owid-content
Posts with mentions or reviews of owid-content.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-09-20.
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Excel as Code
At my last job at OurWorldInData we made something like this. One of the head researchers would build sophisticated spreadsheets containing all the transformations and views our users could do, and rather than re-implement that logic in Typescript, we saved it as TSV and built a spreadsheet editor for the researchers to use.
Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0l2QWH-iV3k
Changes in the spreadsheet UI then work really well with git. For example: https://github.com/owid/owid-content/commit/37ef12d65655fa14...
What are some alternatives?
When comparing excel_as_code and owid-content you can also consider the following projects:
terminusdb - TerminusDB is a distributed database with a collaboration model
pycel - A library for compiling excel spreadsheets to python code & visualizing them as a graph
materialize - The data warehouse for operational workloads.