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This looks amazing.

And... I keep waiting for MS to provide an add-in to Excel that will allow ML analysis and similar visualization.

Even better, someone beat MS to it and do one for Libre Calc.

They've got all the building blocks really. For instance check out sand dance https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/sanddance/

It's just that Microsoft is so focused on getting you into azure services that they're pushing these capabilities up there instead.

What you've said makes a lot of sense. There's a sea of researchers out there who do extremely complex PCA and all kinds of wizardry with Excel, mountains of complex systems are built atop Excel in both academia and the wall street, MS really needs to see and realize their moves in Excel space could be huge.

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