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been pondering what the future of data & analytics looks like, so I spent some time writing about it. www.dataduel.co/if-spreadshe...

dataduel.coIf spreadsheets are eternal, are BI tools transitory? – DataDuel.coThe article discusses the evolution of business intelligence (BI) tools, questioning their longevity compared to the enduring nature of spreadsheets. It highlights how spreadsheets facilitated decisio...

Richard Hyman

@a11ychief.bsky.social

20 Feb 2025

It’s very on brand for Microsoft to increase the processing limits of an application without making sure it can process up to the new limit.

Jacob Matson

@matsonj.com

lol I mean that is every complex piece of software imo, but usually they are so hard to use that normies don’t experience it. Excel is so easy to use that it is the classic normie footgun.

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Richard Hyman

@a11ychief.bsky.social

20 Feb 2025

Well exactly, I mean I use logic pro and apparently it can take up to 1000 instruments. I can’t even imagine using a quarter of that in a project. You’d have to be one or mightily determined engineer to even come close to 3/4 of the way there. Excel you could brute force easily.