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first they said attention is all you need then they said scale is all you need but i say spreadsheet skills are all you need

big data means access to the small details. and sometimes these small details matter when understanding and running your business working with granular data is good, actually. working with just summary or abbreviated data is unfortunate and shouldn't be the default. You can go from the former to the latter, but not vice versa. we have a customer with a Nobie model that contains 604,000,000 cells (and growing quickly) because their finance team wants to keep all of the context at their fingertips. at jp morgan, it was always a mental block for me to be limited to the summary data from the audited public financials without being able to see the nitty-gritty details driving those numbers. but today's finance teams shouldn't have this problem - they should feel empowered to bring every single data point into the same place where they do their day-to-day work so they can dig in and understand the details if needed. in 5 years, it will seem bonkers that spreadsheet users defaulted to working with summary or abbreviated data

???? dm me if you want/need to compare numbers between excel/google sheets versions ???? for example, you want to compare the VFinal_Final_Final.xlsx revenue forecast for Q4 2024 to the VManagement_Final.xlsx you put together before the board update At Nobie, we added the ability to back up (messy) excel workbooks into a database that is queryable within our excel plugin and are looking for feedback from more use cases

Spreadsheets - Not dead nor will they be in my lifetime. The electronic spreadsheet, one of the greatest inventions ever, was first introduced in 1979 by VisiCalc. It feels like since the creation of spreadsheets we have been hearing about 'spreadsheet killers', or Excel killers as they are commonly referred to on a regular basis. Yet spreadsheets are stronger than ever. The reality is Excel and spreadsheets are not going anywhere, and no AI will not kill them despite many a click-bait headline. In addition to Excel getting better all the time with more and more great features, including several features in Beta: ?? Python in Excel ?? New Regex Functions in Excel ?? Pivot By Function ?? Group By Function Google Sheets also continues to get better and will be releasing a new and improved tables feature that will make Google Sheets tables similar to Excel tables. In addition to these two popular spreadsheets, more and more other spreadsheets are coming up with unique features and functions as they work to make the spreadsheet a more popular tool, which is hard to do given that?it is one of the most used software's in the world. In addition to Excel and Google Sheets, some of the other new spreadsheet software out there are: ?? Nobie ?? Equals ?? Sourcetable ?? Rows.com ?? Spreadsheet.com ?? SheetRocks, Inc. Let me know in the comments do you think spreadsheets are going anywhere anytime soon?

We've got some big things cooking in Nobie-land ???? ?? One of the developments involves S. Q. L. We've built Nobie so you don't need SQL. Like at all. You can dump all of your tables into a workbook and start modeling. But we've gotten feedback that some peeps want to start with good ol' raw SQL. So below is a little sneak peek for the copy-pasta ninjas and SQL gods alike who wanna bring in their SQL creations from elsewhere or fiddle with their db in real-time. Turns out that because we're lighting fast against your db we're a kinda lit place to fiddle with SQL queries in addition (of course) to using it in your spreadsheet models downstream.

It's a beautiful day here in SF ?. And it's got me thinking about the future and entropy. Energy, AI, and data. What do these have in common? 1. They're not going away - at least not until the heat death of the universe. 2. They're scaling along an exponential curve 3. AI consumes energy and, in turn, produces data AI is often perceived as a compression force that summarizes and simplifies our complex world (that's my first-order mental model). Yet, paradoxically, it contributes to an exponential increase in data, similar to how energy transformation inevitably increases entropy. Each magnitude increase in data volume will change how we think about every role within companies (who owns data) and what tools we need to handle that volume

Wait no longer and brace yourselves. In addition to Snowflake, Nobie now connects to Databricks ?? and Postgres ?? First, there was VLOOKUP, then INDEX MATCH MATCH, and then XLOOKUP. Now, feast your eyes on WLOOKUP, which allows you to grab a narrow set of values from your live-connected worktable, and model them to your heart's desire in Nobie's spreadsheet. Finally, we added the ability to extract any value from a nested JSON or CSV string; ? no SQL or data engineering required ? Peek the video or check out on Loom at the link in the comments! These are just some of the updates that we've shipped in the last few days. If you're blocked by your data source or data size, send me a DM and let's get you unblocked ??????