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Horrendous? Strongly disagree if you're doing anything non-trivial. As soon as you start mixing the two, both become worse. You're basically losing the UX benefits of native Excel and adding confusion to Pandas.

Yes, Pandas has a learning curve but so does Excel once you get into advanced functionality. It's inevitable. Once you get through this it's a fairly intuitive powerhouse.

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That's a good point -- and maybe horrendous was too strong of a word. It's actually been really interesting talking to people who come from the Excel world vs the Python world first. There's a group of people we've ran into who have never used Excel before, and for them, you're right, giving them a spreadsheet interface to write formulas and manipulate their data is actually a huge disadvantage.

I think the way that Mito tries to walk the line is by making the Python code visible for the user to see what the equivalent Python looks like + easily usable in your analysis, but also completely generated for you. So hopefully, we're not introducing the confusion of pandas into your workflow.

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