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This is great. Finance people especially love this sort of thing - they do want to browse through entire datasets vs seeing higher level metrics in a lot of cases.


> Finance people especially love this sort of thing - they do want to browse through entire datasets vs seeing higher level metrics in a lot of cases

To expand on this, a lot of finance is searching out and understanding, normalizing or exploiting edge cases.


This is why excel is king. just give me a grid with all the data and a pivot table


Except when Excel won't manage nearly all the data. I'll sometimes use Igor Pro† before coding something up however.

† (only because I'm familiar with it - I'm positive there are better GUIs)




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