▲ 194 ▼ Worth the effort to obtain a copy of MS Office on the high seas? *SOLVED (sh.itjust.works) submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Reverendender@sh.itjust.works to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 101 comments fedilink hide all child comments It's for my mother, who so far cannot stand LibreOffice.
[–] cestvrai@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) If I’m doing anything substantial, calculation-wise, I use openpyxl. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Proteus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) Interesting! permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] cestvrai@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago* You might also find the Python library pandas useful. Its “DataFrames” can mirror your excel data 1:1 and you have convenience methods like to_excel(). Easy to combine with numpy for performant matrix math. XLSX just becomes a container for storing/sharing your data, and while Python is used for analysis. I would use matplotlib for plotting rather than embedding in the sheet. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Proteus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) Interesting! permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] cestvrai@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago* You might also find the Python library pandas useful. Its “DataFrames” can mirror your excel data 1:1 and you have convenience methods like to_excel(). Easy to combine with numpy for performant matrix math. XLSX just becomes a container for storing/sharing your data, and while Python is used for analysis. I would use matplotlib for plotting rather than embedding in the sheet. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] cestvrai@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago* You might also find the Python library pandas useful. Its “DataFrames” can mirror your excel data 1:1 and you have convenience methods like to_excel(). Easy to combine with numpy for performant matrix math. XLSX just becomes a container for storing/sharing your data, and while Python is used for analysis. I would use matplotlib for plotting rather than embedding in the sheet. permalink fedilink source parent
