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		antidnan on April 4, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The design philosophy of Great Tables There's also a book on the subject: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_History_of_Mathematical_Ta... Interesting aside: AI models trained on spreadsheets need "good tables" such as column names, headers, etc. to understand context. Like Fortap: https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.07323

richmeister on April 4, 2024 [–]

Thanks for sharing the book info! I really need to find a copy of that somewhere :)

hilti on April 5, 2024 | [–]

Me too. It‘s listed on eBay for $145 which is a lot of money.

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