It turns out necessity really can be the mother of invention. Just ask Dan Bricklin — who co-created VisiCalc, the first computer spreadsheet. Prior to VisiCalc, personal computers were basically ...

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AI success depends on whether enterprise data is ready, reachable, and close enough to the workloads that need it. In this eSpeaks episode, Dell Technologies’ Vrashank Jain explains why fragmented ...

Computer science researchers have turned to unlikely sources - including Enron - for assembling huge collections of spreadsheets that can be used to study how people use this software. The goal is for ...

One of the most distracting actions in a terminal-heavy workflow is opening a spreadsheet in Excel, Google Sheets, or LibreOffice. Even if you only need a quick peek, it breaks focus. I have been ...

Spreadsheets are super powerful, but they have limits. This article examines four big challenges of working in spreadsheets, and shows how data science tools such as notebooks can cleverly address ...

Computer spreadsheet programs have been around since 1979, when Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston created VisiCalc. The breakthrough program turned the Apple II into an electronic ledger, allowing users ...