Hedge Fund Created an Excel on Steroids(wsj.com)
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Hedge Fund Created an Excel on Steroids
https://www.wsj.com/articles/hedge-fund-spreadsheet-application-arcticdb-c98906f0
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Completely off-topic: some years ago, an Excel on steroid was posted on HN. A UI where you could visually organize your column groupings, your multi-cardinality (one cell of one column had several connecting cells on its next column), your drillDowns.
Is there an insightful fellow here who remembers a tool like that, and could remind me the name of it.
It was really food for thought about how the proper UI can properly drive your mental model about data [or kill it, in the case of Excel]
Could be Clearfactr [1] which was a really interesting twist on spreadsheets, developed and built by a single person.
Clearfactr was acquired by Goldman Sachs in 2018.
It's been used internally in Goldman since then and they don't make it available outside the company unfortunately.
[1] https://www.clearfactr.com/
Clearfactr was acquired by Goldman Sachs in 2018.
It's been used internally in Goldman since then and they don't make it available outside the company unfortunately.
[1] https://www.clearfactr.com/
The article is about ArcticDB
https://archive.ph/I7gp1
https://archive.ph/I7gp1
Shame. No pictures. No code excerpts. No examples.