Douwe Osinga and Jack Amadeo were working together at Sidewalk Labs, Alphabet’s venture to build tech-forward cities, when they arrived at the conclusion that most spreadsheet software doesn’t scale ...

You can write a Python program or use a Jupyter Notebook to do almost anything. But you can also get a lot of things done quickly using a spreadsheet. Grist is a “hacker’s” spreadsheet that merges ...

The power of Python trumps Excel workbooks.

Using the SSConverter class that we developed last week, which used the OORunner class from the week before that, this week we'll create a Python function that allows us to use spreadsheets as if they ...

A surprisingly powerful partnership ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Douwe Osinga and Jack Amadeo were working together at Sidewalk Labs, Alphabet’s venture to build tech-forward cities, when they ...

Each input file is a spreadsheet and it is converted into the corresponding output file as a CSV file. The new version has been enhanced so that you can append a sheet name or number to the end of the ...