Flexibility and ease of use have made the spreadsheet the popular but unfortunate choice for makeshift databases; we can do better For a long stretch of early personal computing history, three ...

New software could make databases much easier for laypeople to work with. The program's home screen looks like a spreadsheet, but it lets users build their own database queries and reports by ...

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 ...