Google Everyone on the planet has heard of Microsoft Excel. It’s the world’s analytical infrastructure. Estimates are that 1,500,000,000 people use Excel.
Users love it at least twice a day and typically have several spreadsheets open at the same time. It’s the go-to application for numeric analyses of all kinds. Though there have been some challengers, it’s as dominant as a tool can be.
NotebookLM? What’s that? At a recent meeting at my university, nearly all of the participants – all heavy Excel users – had never heard of it. No one knows how many users there are. Hardly anyone knows what it does – except for my students (I’ll return to that later).
So how in the world could anyone compare NotebookLM with Excel? Stay with me. Excel Microsoft romances about Excel: “somewhere in your data there’s a story ..
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. find summaries, trends and patterns, or get recommendations for charts and graphs to visualize everything.” Gemini lists the tasks anyone can perform with Excel: Data analysis : Excel can be used to perform calculations, statistical comparisons, and what-if analysis.
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