Comments on: Why the World Got Stuck on Spreadsheets and the Future of Data Manipulation https://blog.scraperwiki.com/2013/05/why-the-world-got-stuck-on-spreadsheets-and-the-future-of-data-manipulation/ Extract tables from PDFs and scrape the web Thu, 14 Jul 2016 16:12:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.6 By: Press Coverage For QueryTree’s Launch https://blog.scraperwiki.com/2013/05/why-the-world-got-stuck-on-spreadsheets-and-the-future-of-data-manipulation/#comment-919 Fri, 24 May 2013 20:42:42 +0000 http://blog.scraperwiki.com/?p=758218783#comment-919 […] also wrote a guest blog post on the ScraperWiki blog: here and a personal blog post talking about some of the technology behind […]

]]> By: freerangeresearch https://blog.scraperwiki.com/2013/05/why-the-world-got-stuck-on-spreadsheets-and-the-future-of-data-manipulation/#comment-918 Tue, 21 May 2013 19:47:48 +0000 http://blog.scraperwiki.com/?p=758218783#comment-918 I think that people will be more open to different ways of working with data in time. There seems to be a culture shift from “the spreadsheet is the foundation of all data” to “what is that, and why do I need to learn it?” That culture shift will strengthen as people learn different ways of working with data and find different kinds of data to work with.

That said, I have no visual handle whatsoever on what you’re getting at, so I’ll poke around your links a little. In my mind, data storage and data visualization are two very different things. Spreadsheets are more for storage than visualization. But then, that’s my inner statistical programmer talking.

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