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gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
the reason to make plots programmatically is typically because you’re already processing the data in python in ways that would have been too complicated if you’d do it in excel a table calculation program.
BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 1 week ago
Dump it out as a CSV and import it to excel?
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
that is manual labor each time you run the script, while plotting in python re-makes the plot automatically.
BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 1 week ago
You could just automate the generation of the excel sheet as well - it’s really just pick your poison.
Themadbeagle@lemm.ee 1 week ago
Having worked on a programs that automatically generate and process data from excel spreadsheets for a large company, I shuddered when you said that.