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Microsoft announces Python formulas in Excel... which have to get sent to the cloud (techcommunity.microsoft.com)
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Since its inception, Microsoft Excel has changed how people organize, analyze, and visualize their data, providing a basis for decision-making for the flying billionaires heads up in the clouds who don't give a fuck for life off~~the~~line

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[–] Kethal@lemmy.world 49 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is inside-out programming. I want my code to read data files, not my data files to contain code.

The first example is how to take cells in the sheet and make a data frame in an Excel equation. That's easy, pandas.read_excel(): no clound needed, no need to hunt through cells of a sheet to find your code.