As someone who took his last math class in high school, it’s not been all that often that I’ve had the need to sit down and really crunch some numbers. It’s for this reason that I went almost all of ...

February 18, 2014 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google Spreadsheets are one of the most mystifying pieces of software you'll encounter in your adult life. As scary ...

I downloaded a few wedding planning apps when we got engaged. They were fine. I stopped using them within a week and built ...

Microsoft has woven its generative AI technology throughout Microsoft 365, the company’s productivity suite. Its Copilot AI assistant is most often used in M365 apps for text-oriented actions, such as ...

When I started my career as an engineer, personal computers were a luxury. When our department finally got one, we had to share, and coordinated our schedules so we could each use it for a few hours a ...

Spreadsheets are super powerful, but they have limits. This article examines four big challenges of working in spreadsheets, and shows how data science tools such as notebooks can cleverly address ...

I learned, belatedly, that last October 17 was Spreadsheet Day, marking the 35th anniversary of VisiCalc, the Apple II program that started it all. This moved me to republish a long piece I wrote 30 ...

Many people have trouble keeping their checkbooks balanced. Now that debit cards have made it easy to have money electronically transferred out of your bank account without even having to write a ...

Much of the early success of consumer electronics giant Apple Inc. was due to the demand of businesses for the Apple II home computer to run the VisiCalc spreadsheet software application. VisiCalc and ...