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Anaconda, the maker and distributor of data science tools, has unleashed a public beta of Anaconda Code that enables Python code to be run locally within Microsoft Excel. Anaconda Code is part of the Anaconda Toolbox, an Excel add-in that provides data connectors, data visualization, AI assistance, and code snippets for Python …

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  1. ecofeco Silver badge
    Facepalm

    Yo! We heard you like...

    ... more complexity in your Excel, so we added even more complexity!!!

    - X-zeebyte

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  2. david 12 Silver badge

    Python in Excel offering from 2023

    It would have been less confusing to call that "Microsoft's Python in Excel offering from 2023"

    Because whoever built the code (and my understanding was that it was MS employees on an Anaconda base), it was Microsoft that offered python in Office 365 on Azure

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  3. druck Silver badge

    With Python and Pandas you can skip Excel altogether.

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    1. Charlie Clark Silver badge
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      Which people increasingly do. But the results tend to get saved to Excel for distribution and consumption by the PHBs who don't want to learn anything new.

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  4. captain veg Silver badge

    "Peter Wang, co-founder and Chief AI Innovation Officer at Anaconda"

    Oh dear.

    -A.

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  5. CAPS LOCK

    Badger, badger, badger...

    ...I think you mean this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIyixC9NsLI

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