Friday, December 09, 2022

Google brings machine learning to online spreadsheets with Simple ML for Sheets

Good news! As a very intensive user of Google Sheets I can not wait to try it out! Holy sheet!

This could potentially dramatically improve e.g. the search function or filter function! In the past, if you have a very large data spreadsheet with thousands of rows and you are looking for a particular term, but the term is possibly misspelled in some unknown or unexpected way or contains a special character or a blank is pre/appended etc., good luck finding it without resorting to e.g. regular expressions.
 
"... Today Google announced a beta release of the Simple ML for Sheets add-on. Google Sheets has an extensible architecture that enables users to benefit from add-ons that extend the default functionality available in the application. In this case, Google Sheets benefits from ML technology that Google first developed in the open-source TensorFlow project. With Simple ML for Sheets, users will not need to use a specific TensorFlow service, as Google has developed the service to be as easily accessible as possible. ..."

Google brings machine learning to online spreadsheets with Simple ML for Sheets | VentureBeat

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