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Articles tagged data provenance

Spreadsheets 3 min read

Messy Spreadsheets Aren't Bad Data. They're Business Data.

Merged headers, subtotal rows, three tables on one sheet, a column that is text in one month and numbers in the next. Data teams call it dirty. It is the shape business information actually takes, and the tools should meet it there.

AI data analysis 4 min read

Why AI Data Analysis Still Sends You Back to Excel

An AI agent can answer a question about your spreadsheet in seconds. Then someone asks where the number came from, and you open Excel anyway. The problem is not the answer. It is everything the answer left behind.