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Buckaroo: A Direct Manipulation Visual Data Wrangler
Annabelle Warner, Andrew McNutt, Paul Rosen, El Kindi Rezig
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16073 https://

Buckaroo: A Direct Manipulation Visual Data Wrangler
Preparing datasets -- a critical phase known as data wrangling -- constitutes the dominant phase of data science development, consuming upwards of 80% of the total project time. This phase encompasses a myriad of tasks: parsing data, restructuring it for analysis, repairing inaccuracies, merging sources, eliminating duplicates, and ensuring overall data integrity. Traditional approaches, typically through manual coding in languages such as Python or using spreadsheets, are not only laborious bu…

8yo curriculum this year includes office 365 and keeping reading progress in spreadsheets.
Cruel and unusual punishment.

Anthropic's Claude can now create PDFs, slides, and spreadsheets, available now for Max, Team, and Enterprise users, and coming to Pro users in the coming weeks (Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/claude-can-create-pdfs-sl…

Claude can create PDFs, slides, and spreadsheets for you now in chat
Say goodbye to copy and pasting with this new feature from Anthropic.

"A society under “number go up” tends towards evil. The men and women behind an excessively high rate of return often make deeply sinful and immoral choices, little different than the Confederate plantation owners did in whipping slaves or lords in castles did when abusing serfs. That they do it with spreadsheets doesn’t make it better. (We even use old terminology: I know of several people in a large health insurance conglomerate who set policies to deny care whose nickname is “the three witches.”)
And that’s why Jeff Epstein’s story is so compelling, it expresses this evil in a way that we all understand. On Sunday, I wrote about the oddness of the story, how an elite sex trafficker convicted of procuring children as prostitutes was friends or associates with everyone from Trump to Bill Clinton to Larry Summers to Bill Gates. Epstein represents how elites live in one moral universe where evil bacchanalia is rampant, while the rest of us live in a different more normal one. Every society has elites, and there are always weird things that elites do. But America, and the West, have reached a point where there is increasingly deep resentment and cynicism about this divide."
#USPolitcs #EconomicInequality
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/the-number-go-up-rule-why-america

SheetDesigner: MLLM-Powered Spreadsheet Layout Generation with Rule-Based and Vision-Based Reflection
Qin Chen, Yuanyi Ren, Xiaojun Ma, Mugeng Liu, Han Shi, Dongmei Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07473

SheetDesigner: MLLM-Powered Spreadsheet Layout Generation with Rule-Based and Vision-Based Reflection
Spreadsheets are critical to data-centric tasks, with rich, structured layouts that enable efficient information transmission. Given the time and expertise required for manual spreadsheet layout design, there is an urgent need for automated solutions. However, existing automated layout models are ill-suited to spreadsheets, as they often (1) treat components as axis-aligned rectangles with continuous coordinates, overlooking the inherently discrete, grid-based structure of spreadsheets; and (2)…

#EU Commission Reactivates #BugBounties
https://www.i-programmer.inf…

Leaked spreadsheets, Slack messages, and files linked to an alleged group of North Korean IT scammers show how they track potential jobs and record earnings (Matt Burgess/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/leaked-data-reveals-the-workaday-lives…

Leak Reveals the Workaday Lives of North Korean IT Scammers
Spreadsheets, Slack messages, and files linked to an alleged group of North Korean IT workers expose their meticulous job-planning and targeting—and the constant surveillance they're under.

Ok. Those of you south of the border break out your spreadsheets and figure what this would cost you.
1. Pain, blood in urine, can't urinate much.
2. In emergency. Seen by two doctors, multiple nurses.
3. CAT scan.
4. Review by urologist.
5. Hooked up to IV.
6. Overnight stay with multiple visits from nurses doing checks.
7. Morning visit with urologist on what is happening.
8. Visit from pharmacist to go over what meds I need.
9. Transport…

Large Language Models for Spreadsheets: Benchmarking Progress and Evaluating Performance with FLARE
Simon Thorne
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17330 https://

Large Language Models for Spreadsheets: Benchmarking Progress and Evaluating Performance with FLARE
Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated some significant capabilities across various domains; however, their effectiveness in spreadsheet related tasks remains underexplored. This study introduces a foundation for a comprehensive benchmark framework to evaluate the performance of leading LLMs in executing spreadsheet functions, formula generation and data manipulation tasks. The benchmark encompasses tasks ranging from basic formula creation to complex, real world spreadsheet scenarios. …

The 84th edition of De Programmatica Ipsum is out!
This month, we declare spreadsheets the most popular software programming environment of all time; in the Library section, we learn how to use Lotus 1-2-3 for science reading "Spreadsheet Physics" by Charles Misner and Patrick Cooney; and in our Vidéothèque section, we discover that Excel is a Turing-complete, functional programming language through the eyes of Dr. Felienne Hermans.

Data-Semantics-Aware Recommendation of Diverse Pivot Tables
Whanhee Cho, Anna Fariha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06171 https://arxiv.o…

Data-Semantics-Aware Recommendation of Diverse Pivot Tables
Data summarization is essential to discover insights from large datasets. In a spreadsheets, pivot tables offer a convenient way to summarize tabular data by computing aggregates over some attributes, grouped by others. However, identifying attribute combinations that will result in useful pivot tables remains a challenge, especially for high-dimensional datasets. We formalize the problem of automatically recommending insightful and interpretable pivot tables, eliminating the tedious manual pro…

I don’t suppose there are any good and complete iOS apps for fedi right?
I know there’s the #Feditext

The new =COPILOT() function in #Microsoft #Excel enables users to easily leverage AI directly within their spreadsheets to quickly populate cells with data or analyze columns with #AI. For a 5min tutorial, v…

who's gonna make the figma of spreadsheets?

PRISM: A MATLAB-Based Application for Structured Probe Data Management and Visualization in Tokamak Diagnostics
Priyanka Verma, Subhojit Bose, Harshita Raj, Joydeep Ghosh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00358

PRISM: A MATLAB-Based Application for Structured Probe Data Management and Visualization in Tokamak Diagnostics
The successful operation of tokamak experiments requires accurate documentation, tracking, and visualization of diagnostic instruments, particularly electrical probes. Traditionally, this metadata is maintained manually through handwritten logbooks or semi-digital spreadsheets, leading to inefficiencies and human errors. In response to these challenges, we present PRISM (Probe Registration and Information System for Monitoring)-a MATLAB-based application developed using App Designer. PRISM prov…