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▶ 14:17 Haile Wusu So to highlight how difficult this is, there was a really lovely paper written by the, the good folks at Microsoft about the, the complexity of this problem.

▶ 6:31 Liz Crawford The way we actually worked this out is, like, this is an Excel spreadsheet. 3 times in the scene
▶ 24:04 unnamed speaker Were you just pulling data from multiple sources and just throwing them in Excel? 2 times in the scene

▶ 12:39 Anthony Deighton Um, to, ah, you know, it's not that they desire export to Excel for some fundamental reason, they make good with that when they have no better alternative.
▶ 20:32 Anthony Deighton So what would happen in a traditional, like an Excel, right, is you'd get a scatterplot with 8000 points on it, which would be like a big blue dot.

▶ 20:03 Anand Sanwal Yeah, I mean, I think the thing, you know, we thought, because we're sort of data geeks, we thought, you know, everybody likes to download data in Excel or R or whatever and work with it. 2 times in the scene

▶ 17:08 Jake Porway And classic examples of this that come up are Microsoft's patent to avoid crime-ridden neighborhoods. 2 times in the scene

▶ 20:58 David Luan Lin's, um, Microsoft Coco set, which just came out a couple of months ago. 2 times in the scene

▶ 0:08 Bob Muglia I was, ah, the first technical guy on SQL Server
▶ 0:16 Bob Muglia I spent 23 years at Microsoft where ultimately I ran the server and tools group and a year ago I decided to join Snowflake to help reinvent the data warehouse for the cloud.
▶ 3:37 Bob Muglia Um, if you think about infrastructure as a service, and of which Amazon's core, AWS is an example, Azure is another example, infrastructure as a service really takes away the data center and the, the hardware, but it leaves the task of…
▶ 20:08 Bob Muglia And one of the key things that we do, we're a, Snowflake is a traditional, in the sense, it is a SQL data warehouse.

▶ 22:53 Scott Crouch When you point out to a police department that's, you know, uh, 10,000 officers or something like that, that they have, like, two guys who work on their servers versus, like, Microsoft or Amazon with thousands, like, it's hard for their…

▶ 3:11 Howie Liu Um, so we did a lot of, uh, we had a lot of conversations with people, um, vested in this space, uh, such as Adam Bosworth, who created MS Access.
▶ 3:23 Howie Liu And, uh, as well as Steven Sonofsky, who headed up Office for, for some time.
▶ 8:30 Howie Liu Um, so it's actually pretty straightforward in a simple data structure like a Word document, which is represented as a single long string.
▶ 14:49 Jeroen Janssens Um, you have shown how to manage data, uh, but Excel is not only used to manage data, you can also, even though I think you shouldn't use Excel for that, but, uh, people of course also use formulas, right, to quickly sum a list of numbers,… 3 times in the scene
▶ 16:26 Howie Liu You know, individuals and businesses, ah, and for personal use cases, as well as professional, just like, you know, if you look at Microsoft Word, it's something that students use, teachers use, but then also businesses use.

▶ 32:27 Ryan Smith And, you know, at some point, adding a bunch of more features to excel, um, becomes diminishing and actually hurts the product.

▶ 0:07 Hanna Wallach I am a researcher at Microsoft and an assistant professor in the School of Computer Science at UMass Amherst.

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