This morning I was just thinking how spreadsheets are a great tool that would be worth an blog post.
In the past I built server dashboards on Google Sheets that consume live data through JSON and automatically refresh.
I wrote a real time labeling system for ML to categorize images in less than a day.
I even wrote a behavioral reinforcement system to build good habits that shows in real time the results on an Android widget.
A spreadsheet is a relatively very simple tool that most of the people understand (and often undervalue). It has a lot of flexibility in it and let you build "good enough" interfaces for internal tools in a fraction of the time that takes to build a web UI and they are are easy to iterate on.
You get a lot of value for time invested on a Google Sheet. They are free and from a user prospective do not require any infrastructure to run them.
In the past I built server dashboards on Google Sheets that consume live data through JSON and automatically refresh.
I wrote a real time labeling system for ML to categorize images in less than a day.
I even wrote a behavioral reinforcement system to build good habits that shows in real time the results on an Android widget.
A spreadsheet is a relatively very simple tool that most of the people understand (and often undervalue). It has a lot of flexibility in it and let you build "good enough" interfaces for internal tools in a fraction of the time that takes to build a web UI and they are are easy to iterate on.
You get a lot of value for time invested on a Google Sheet. They are free and from a user prospective do not require any infrastructure to run them.
"Keep things as simple a s possible" is my motto.