Mastodawn

I am proud of this conditional formatting formula that now highlights any significant growth.

#excel #spreadsheets #gamedev #programmer_humor #funny

I was importing books from a different website into @bookwyrm and wanted to remove a couple and my personal notes just so they didn't accidentally get published to the internet. So I edited my csv by removing those parts and somehow ruined it, spent half an hour trying to fix it. That was yesterday. I tried again today and was somewhat smarter with how I handled the csv and it is currently importing correctly!
#Bookwyrm #Fediverse #Tech #CSV #LibreOffice #LibreOfficeCalc #Spreadsheets

eicker.news ᳇ tech news May 30

»#Perplexity's new tool can generate #spreadsheets, #dashboards: available on the web, iOS, and Android, and coming soon to Perplexity’s apps for Mac and Windows.« https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/29/perplexitys-new-tool-can-generate-spreadsheets-dashboards-and-more/?eicker.news #tech #media #news

Perplexity's new tool can generate spreadsheets, dashboards, and more | TechCrunch

Perplexity, the AI-powered search engine gunning for Google, has released Perplexity Labs, a tool for subscribers to Perplexity's $20-per-month Pro plan that can craft reports, spreadsheets, dashboards, and more.

TechCrunch

Johan van der Knijff May 28

New bloggage - in 2014 I tried to read some old #QuattroPro for #DOS #spreadsheets in modern software, and concluded the format was effectively obsolete.

More than ten years onward, things are looking much better now, thanks to @libreoffice. But my latest tests also highlight some gnarly issues.

https://bitsgalore.org/2025/05/28/quattro-pro-for-dos-revisited-an-obsolete-format-no-more

Quattro Pro for DOS revisited: an obsolete format no more?

This post provides an update to my 2014 attempts at reading old Quattro Pro for DOS spreadsheets with modern software.

bitsgalore.org

nickproud May 27

As a #dotnet developer, at some point, someone is going to ask you for an #Excel output from your #SQL database.

You can't escape it!

Don't worry, I got you 😁

#softwaredevelopment #data #tech #spreadsheets #coding #microsoft

https://zurl.co/qOWyt

Master SQL to Excel Data Export: Entity Framework & ClosedXML | ASP.NET Blazor Tutorial

YouTube

Calishat May 25

#government #finance #spreadsheets #transparency #OpenSource

'Now, users will only have to download an Excel template, input their financial data and upload it to the online tool. The tool will convert the information using eXtensible Business Reporting Language, or XBRL, a royalty-free, open source international framework that communicates financial data on the internet.'

https://news.umich.edu/u-m-develops-free-tool-to-empower-municipalities-modernize-financial-reporting/

U-M develops free tool to empower municipalities, modernize financial reporting

A free, open-source tool designed by the University of Michigan's Ford School of Public Policy is now available to help local governments make financial data more accessible.

University of Michigan News

N-gated Hacker News May 23

🧮 Welcome to 2025, where we still discover the groundbreaking news that #spreadsheets have features. 🚀 In a stunning display of #innovation, intrepid researchers have quantified the sophistication of spreadsheet software, bravely facing the subjective nature of function support and calculation exactness. 🤯 Spoiler alert: they’re all just glorified #calculators with delusions of grandeur. 📈
https://grid.is/blog/comparison-of-spreadsheet-software #research #technology #humor #HackerNews #ngated

GRID — Comparison of spreadsheet software

We compared popular spreadsheet engines—feature sets, function support, accuracy, and speed—and how GRID compares to Excel, Sheets, and the rest of the field.

N-gated Hacker News May 23

🚨 Breaking News: #KumoRFM wants you to believe that relational data is finally getting its #AI #moment, like it's the unpopular kid suddenly invited to the cool kids’ table. 🥳 But really, it's just another #overhyped attempt to make people care about #spreadsheets with delusions of grandeur. 📊✨
https://kumo.ai/company/news/kumo-relational-foundation-model/ #DataTrends #HackerNews #ngated

Introducing KumoRFM: A Foundation Model for In-Context Learning on Relational Data - Kumo

Foundation Models have completely taken over unstructured data domains like natural language and images, delivering significant advances in performance across tasks with little to no task-specific training. Yet structured and semi-structured relational data, which represent some of the most valuable information assets, largely miss out on this AI wave. Here, we present KumoRFM, a Relational Foundation Model (RFM) capable of making accurate predictions over relational databases across a wide range of predictive tasks without requiring data or task-specific training.