Excel 2.0 – Is there a better visual data model than a grid of cells?
Trillions of decisions have been made off a tool that has poor error handling and data consistency issues. Blame is not entirely on either the user or the software, but the tool is too trusted without validation.<p>[Study that was at the core for Europe's austerity and European debt crisis contained excel errors when fixed showed the inverse of original hypothesis.](<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/19/opinion/krugman-the-excel-depression.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/19/opinion/krugman-the-excel...</a>)<p>Programmable commands instead of a data grid would be huge improvement to quality but people use excel in many ways. Python is out of reach for most people. SQL would be an improvement as well. I assumed airtable or similar would replace excel over time. But the sunk cost for existing report and the sharablity seems to keep excel in control.