As someone who took his last math class in high school, it’s not been all that often that I’ve had the need to sit down and really crunch some numbers. It’s for this reason that I went almost all of ...

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 ...

There's no escaping spreadsheets. Tools like Excel and Google Sheets are ubiquitous these days, and learning how to use them more effectively will quickly enhance your daily work. But spreadsheets ...

I learned, belatedly, that last October 17 was Spreadsheet Day, marking the 35th anniversary of VisiCalc, the Apple II program that started it all. This moved me to republish a long piece I wrote 30 ...

Over the last few decades, we’ve evolved from building custom applications for every esoteric business function to creating outstanding foundational enterprise systems that can run virtually any ...

Many people have trouble keeping their checkbooks balanced. Now that debit cards have made it easy to have money electronically transferred out of your bank account without even having to write a ...

An old rule of thumb for building a startup is to find a group of professionals who use spreadsheets to do their work and then build an app to replace their spreadsheet usage. Presto, you have a ...

Spreadsheet software — led by products like Microsoft’s Excel, Google’s Sheets and Apple’s Numbers — continues to be one of the most-used categories of business apps, with Excel alone clocking up more ...