Attack and Dethrone Excel
2023-03-25I’ve yakked on about spreadsheets plenty, and issues like scientists having to rename human genes to stop Excel from misinterpreting them as dates so I’m not going to go into that again here.
And I’ve spent quite a bit of time talking about and experimenting with visual programming because I really do think that it is ridiculous that my code is the same width as a punched card and my 8 megapixel 32-bit-colour monitor spends most of its life emulating an array of green screen text terminals from 1978.
So it is with immense excitement that I can announce that I’ve been working on CountESS, a visual computing framework for scientific computing.
Process files far too large for a spreadsheet and perform library operations in Numpy, Pandas and Dask without writing any code. Plug in specific snippets of Python and R where necessary. Implement your own data manipulation plugins and publish them directly to PyPI.
The project’s focus is on addressing some specific problems in bioinformatics, but for me the mission is much bigger …
Attack and Dethrone Excel