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Spreadsheets are my desired cuisine. Excel the dish I adore.
But fill it up with too many ingredients, and you’ll find Excel on the floor.
It happens all the more frequent now, as my grocery store is now a warehouse
So I pound my fists and curse and yell, and leave Excel in the guesthouse.
Lost without Excel, in a ‘landscape where nothing officially exists’
I saw a single cell appear above the dune in a hazy mist
Running up the dune, the grid displayed with all its might
A new spreadsheet designed for my growing appetite.
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I’m one of the founders of Mito [1] (and a very bad poet). Like Spreadsheets are Dreams discusses, we believe that spreadsheets are the most powerful low-code tool because of their versatility to capture the simplicity or complexity of nearly any analysis.
As my poem tries to highlight, existing spreadsheet tools like Excel are not designed for today’s growing data sets. Today's spreadsheets should help users leverage their Excel skills while upgrading to a more robust and powerful environment like Python.
Mito is a spreadsheet extension to your Jupyter environment. You can display any Pandas dataframe as a spreadsheet, and edit it in a very similar way to Excel. For each edit you make, it generates the corresponding Python code below for those edits. Practically, you can think about Mito as recording a macro, but instead of generating VBA code, it generates Python.