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by welterde 2143 days ago
python+pandas [1] is probably quite an easy choice for most common things people would use excel for. And being in the python ecosystem offers lots of libraries for statistics, machine learning, signal analysis, plotting etc.

[1] https://pandas.pydata.org/docs/user_guide/10min.html
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vxNsr 2143 days ago
People like real time feedback it's why word is more popular than tex, all these tech folks pushing code solutions to wysiwyg software issues are missing the point.
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welterde 2143 days ago
Ipython/jupyter notebooks fill that niche quite nicely.
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