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gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months 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 2 months ago
Dump it out as a CSV and import it to excel?
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
that is manual labor each time you run the script, while plotting in python re-makes the plot automatically.
BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 2 months ago
You could just automate the generation of the excel sheet as well - it’s really just pick your poison.
Themadbeagle@lemm.ee 2 months 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.