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Podcast: DataFramed
Episode: #228 Are Spreadsheets Still Relevant For Data Analysis? with Jordan Goldmeier, Author of Data Smart
Description: Excel often gets unfair criticism from data practitioners, many of us will remember a time when Excel was looked down upon—why would anyone use Excel when we have powerful tools like Python, R, SQL, or BI tools? However, like it or not, Excel is here to stay, and there’s a meme, bordering on reality, that Excel is carrying a large chunk of the world’s GDP. But when it really comes down to it, can you do data science in Excel?Jordan Goldmeier is an entrepreneur, a consultant, a best-selling author of four books on data, a...