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I see Jupyter notebooks as the next step in spreadsheets with more code foundation and different media support. For me the interface doesn't work as well as I would like but I can see the potential.

My brother in law wants something like this for structural analysis reports where the code, data and report are all one thing that can be pulled out and examined.

Watching the new iPad announcement today I think this is something that would make an excellent iPad app as well.

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I used to use Excel extensively. I've started using Jupyter as a replacement. Some things are great like python modules that can do anything, and visualizations. But if there are less than 100k rows, its still much easier to just use Excel. I'm kinda disappointed. IF you have more than 100k rows then Excel starts to be cumbersome. That is the sweet spot for me.

If you are interested in spreadsheets but with Python, try http://datalore.io/ It tracks dependencies automatically and recalculates them when needed (this behavior can also be made less automatic).

yeah, i have a use case now where we pull data from a database, manipulate it, and then have a final table/csv/dataframe/whatever. the problem is then how to share this with non-technical users. in an ideal world, this would get inserted into a google sheet, and that sheet would just update daily after new data is loaded into the database.

i'm pretty sure this is a usecase which others have and curious what people use to solve it. i've heard, variously, that some options are to use tableau/similar or email a csv and ask the end user to import into google sheets/excel

Google Sheets has an API. So if putting the output there is the ideal, just use that API from Python?

yeah, issue is that if you're inputting more than ~500 rows, you'll be rate limited :|

Your brother in law’s wish is granted. Blockpad is specifically targeted towards such reports

https://blockpad.net

Already now you can run a Jupyter notebook on an http server and serve it to Safari in an iPad.

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