Hacker News with Generative AI: Excel

Xlwings Lite – Python in Excel Using Pyodide (xlwings.org)
xlwings Lite brings the VBA experience into the modern age by offering a privacy-first, secure, and developer-friendly way to automate Excel and write custom functions with Python.

Python, Excel, Automation, Open Source, Programming

22 points by owenm 22 days ago | 5 comments

$16B health dept managed finances with single Excel sheet. It hasn't gone well (theregister.com)
The body that runs New Zealand’s public health system uses a single Excel spreadsheet as the primary source of data to consolidate and manage its finances, which aren’t in great shape perhaps due to the sheet’s shortcomings.

New Zealand, Public Health, Finance, Data Management, Excel

7 points by rntn 47 days ago | 1 comments

PSExcel: Excel automation without Excel Overview (2015) (ramblingcookiemonster.github.io)
When I first started using PowerShell, I preferred sending data to Excel, where I could comfortably filter, sort, and work with data. One of my first functions was a modification of Export-XLSX found on the Internet. That same code sits in a few places in production today; looking at old code is scary.

PowerShell, Excel, Automation, Software Development

25 points by leonry 50 days ago | 7 comments

AI by Hand Exercises in Excel (github.com/ImagineAILab)
AI by Hand ✍️ Exercises in Excel

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Excel, Data Science

122 points by todsacerdoti 78 days ago | 8 comments

Converting a 700 Page PDF to Excel with Claude Sonnet (martinklepsch.org)
The other day, my flatmate mentioned that a colleague had a 700 page PDF with a bunch of tables that would be nice to have in a spreadsheet.

Tools, PDF Conversion, Excel, Claude Sonnet

5 points by mklappstuhl 99 days ago | 0 comments

Microsoft Word and Excel AI data scraping switched to opt-in by default (tomshardware.com)

Microsoft Word, Excel, AI, Data Scraping, Privacy

103 points by oldnetguy 151 days ago | 50 comments

Making the Mandelbrot Set with Excel (divisbyzero.com)
The Mandelbrot set is one of the most stunning geometric objects in all of mathematics. In this blog post, I will show how to generate the Mandelbrot set below using Excel. It is also an example of how you can use AI (I used ChatGPT) to help with a task like this. (Here is the Excel file I created if you want to play with it.)

Mathematics, Excel, Programming, Artificial Intelligence

8 points by johndcook 163 days ago | 0 comments

Excel Turing Machine (2013) (felienne.com)
This weekend, I went on a get away with some fellow developers of Devnology. We do this every year, drinking beer, talking about programming, and often also, programming.

Programming, Tools, Excel

11 points by pabs3 183 days ago | 2 comments

Ask HN: What's the best AI solution for financial modeling? (ycombinator.com)
LLM's can write code now. Can they do financial modeling in Excel/Google Sheets (or export into these)?

Financial Modeling, Artificial Intelligence, Excel, Google Sheets

4 points by jfraiman 216 days ago | 4 comments

Don't use Excel for data analysis (genomic.social)

Data Analysis, Excel, Alternatives

11 points by ColinWright 287 days ago | 5 comments

My thoughts on Python in Excel (xlwings.org)

Python, Excel, Programming Tools

288 points by fzumstein 318 days ago | 118 comments

Ask HN: How would you chunk a large Excel file? (ycombinator.com)

Data Processing, Excel, Software Development, Programming, Ask HN

22 points by codingclaws 335 days ago | 44 comments

Show HN: Excel to Python Compiler (pyoneer.ai)