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datanitro.com
Company blog · datanitro.com/blog · on HN as vj44programmingdata
datanitro.com is the company blog at datanitro.com, writing about programming and data. Since 2012, 17 different Hacker News readers have linked it 33 times, most often “The Future of Excel”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (15) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters mostly link datanitro.com as a paid Python-in-Excel add-in, not for its writing. Comments name the product and its Excel integration, with one note on its example charts.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 15 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /8 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2013-04-09
- The Future of Excel2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-02-12
What Hacker News says?
Both Python and R can be used in Excel via several addons. Python: http://www.python-excel.org/ https://www.xlwings.org/ https://datanitro.com/ R: http://rcom.univie.ac.at/download.html https://bert-toolkit.com/ However, officially MS have chosen to move ahead with Javascript for add-ins and VBA-like automation: https://dev.office.com/docs/add-ins/develop/understanding-th... http://rockthecode.io/blog/javascript-and…
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on “A Look at How Traders and Economists Are Using the Julia Programming Language”Submitted The Future of Excel as a story · 139 points
HN discussionAwesome to see a FOSS solution for this. Ben at DataNitro[1], a paid solution that's been around for a while, has been awesome in my occasional correspondence with him as a user. Anyone looking for xlwing's functionality with commercial support etc should give them a look. [1] https://datanitro.com/
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on “Use Python in Excel without add-ins”Submitted Basic Option Strategies as a story · 110 points
HN discussionInterestingly, someone recently posted on HN that they're trying to integrate Python into Excel: https://datanitro.com/blog/2013/2/12/future/ Not ideal, but it's a step up from VBA.
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on “Sorry, Geeks, Microsoft Excel is Everywhere”Submitted Excel and SQL as a story · 93 points
HN discussionHello smortaz, Your post reminded me DataNitro[1] (previously IronSpread), a python-in-excel solution that was featured on HN nearly a year ago[2], and a YCombinator-backed company. As far as I'm aware it seems closed-source and costly, while your solution is open-source and free. But how does it compare functionality-wise? At my company we're using using Excel pretty often and python is growing, so using such a too…
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on “Excel as a database”Submitted Show HN: Hadoop in Excel as a story · 82 points
HN discussionand the problem with CPython is that is wouldn't be compatible with any of the office api's that are likely based on .net technology. so which one do you think would be better for office. I haven't done ms office automation since office 2k7 but that is the way it was heading. edit: oh I see what you are getting at. a new product from a new company created at mit in 2012. https://www.datanitro.com/ I would argue that…
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on “The Future of Excel”Submitted A Python-Powered Budget Spreadsheet as a story · 78 points
HN discussionMaybe it's news because the Kindle price is discounted? I don't know the book, but anyone interested in financial modeling in Python should check out https://datanitro.com/ and their Excel API https://voyager.datanitro.com/ . Definitely a big improvement over Visual Basic macros.
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on “Python for Finance”Submitted Basic Option Strategies, Part 2 - Options Pricing as a story · 75 points
HN discussionHave a look at DataNitro for a similar idea with python as the backend: https://datanitro.com/ I've never used it, but it looks quite nifty. It would certainly be interesting to see something similar for R.
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on “Introducing R to a non-programmer in one hour”Submitted IPython in Excel as a story · 73 points
HN discussionI think it's comparable to XMLSpy, in how powerful it is, how niche it is, how incredibly useful it is to some people, and how expensive it is. https://datanitro.com/pricing.html
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on “IPython in Excel”Submitted Options Pricing in Excel with QuantLib as a story · 73 points
HN discussionThanks! We have some basic examples up on our blog. A good one is blackjack in Excel [1] - it shows off some of the versatility of Python as compared to VBA, like the ability to run a script in the background and have it respond to user actions. [1] https://datanitro.com/blog/2012/07/31/Interactive-Spreadshee...
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on “DataNitro (YC S12) launches Python for Microsoft Excel”Submitted Mean Variance Optimization as a story · 66 points
HN discussionfrom https://www.datanitro.com/faq.html#faq-5 We don't plan to support Mac OS X or Linux. Drats. So much for my version of Excel on Linux. Seriously, OS X seems a pretty glaring oversight. I know I'll get snide replies about the amount of users, Libre Office, or using Numbers. That misses the point. I can share an Excel document with a normal bit of VBA and share it with any Excel user, dating back several years. Th…
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on “DataNitro is now $99”Submitted DataNitro is now $99 as a story · 52 points
HN discussionMaybe this helps? https://www.datanitro.com/product.html
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on “DataNitro is now $99”Submitted A beginner's guide to setting up Python on Windows as a story · 52 points
HN discussionThe fundamental problem with big spreadsheets is that they're complex pieces of software, and they're being designed by people who haven't studied software engineering. Building a complex program is hard. It's untenable if you don't approach it properly. This is true whether you're using Excel, Python, LISP, or anything else. Better tools can go a long way to help, but the ultimate answer is educating people on how…
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on “Humans vs. Microsoft Excel: The Quest For Smart Tools”Submitted Principle Component Analysis as a story · 42 points
HN discussionThe https://datanitro.com/ product integrates Python into Excel quite nicely.
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on “Ask HN: Language compiled to Excel spreadsheets?”Submitted A Spreadsheet for finding Roots of Polynomials as a story · 33 points
HN discussionThanks for trying it out! We have some more examples on our blog: https://datanitro.com/blog/
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on “Better Excel charts”Submitted Better Excel charts as a story · 33 points
HN discussionNot that I'm saying Excel's graphing is excellent, but the graphs at https://datanitro.com/blog/assets/img/chart3.PNG are a bit of a cheat since there's very little customization done to the Excel graph. That may be intentional, but needs to be noted.
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on “Better Excel charts”Submitted Big Data in Excel - live stream as a story · 1 points
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