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by nyanpasu64 1906 days ago
Apparently nobody has mentioned Airtable yet. It appears to be a spreadsheet-database hybrid (also in the spirit of Improv), but is advertised as a low-code app development platform, aimed towards organization, and has minimal numerical processing tools. Instead, I want a number crunching environment, something with SQL's strong schemas and multiple tables, Excel's data entry/inspection interface and reactive formulas, R or numpy (idk about pandas)'s flexibility, and Excel/matplotlib/ggplot-like graphing.
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Airtable is pretty, but it took me about 5 minutes to hit hard limits on its capabilities, for doing basic things I've done in spreadsheets for 20 years.
Airtable seems more like the spiritual successor to something like ms access.