Re: Fw: benchmark of Excel, Calc, Google Docs

2019-12-21 Thread Aditya Parameswaran
Michael, just checking in to see what might be a good time to chat. We're excited to connect! Aditya On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 2:22 PM Aditya Parameswaran wrote: > Michael, > > We'd love to meet and discuss! Unfortunately, a lot of us are off for > break starting next week so it might be best to

Re: Fw: benchmark of Excel, Calc, Google Docs

2019-12-13 Thread Aditya Parameswaran
Michael, We'd love to meet and discuss! Unfortunately, a lot of us are off for break starting next week so it might be best to sync up early next year. Would week of the 6th work for you? 8am PT/10am CT/4pm GMT any day should work! > We started by having the relational database be a simple persi

Re: Fw: benchmark of Excel, Calc, Google Docs

2019-12-10 Thread Wol
On 10/12/2019 17:30, Aditya Parameswaran wrote: Wols, Thanks for sharing your concerns, replete with quotes from Einstein :-) ! I believe I share those concerns... but there are of course some liberties we can take as an academic group that you folks managing a popular spreadsheet tool cannot

Re: Fw: benchmark of Excel, Calc, Google Docs

2019-12-10 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Aditya, On 08/12/2019 23:14, Aditya Parameswaran wrote: > I'm Aditya Parameswaran, an assistant professor at UC Berkeley.  Along > with Prof. Karrie Karahalios at the University of Illinois and many > Ph.D. student researchers, we've been working on developing a scalable > spreadsheet system, D

Re: Fw: benchmark of Excel, Calc, Google Docs

2019-12-10 Thread Aditya Parameswaran
Wols, Thanks for sharing your concerns, replete with quotes from Einstein :-) ! I believe I share those concerns... but there are of course some liberties we can take as an academic group that you folks managing a popular spreadsheet tool cannot take (e.g., doing a proof of concept as opposed to

Re: Fw: benchmark of Excel, Calc, Google Docs

2019-12-09 Thread Wols Lists
On 09/12/19 19:14, Aditya Parameswaran wrote: >The idea of converting to SQL queries is an interesting one > but I find > it very hard to believe it would provide any performance advantage at > the same memory footprint. Furthermore - I'd be interested to know how > you

Re: Fw: benchmark of Excel, Calc, Google Docs

2019-12-09 Thread Aditya Parameswaran
Oops, for some reason I forgot to add Sajjadur to the email list! Aditya On Sun, Dec 8, 2019 at 3:14 PM Aditya Parameswaran wrote: > Michael, > > Great to connect with you. Sajjadur forwarded your email to me. > > Just a bit of context about the work that you're referring to -- > > I'm Aditya

Re: Fw: benchmark of Excel, Calc, Google Docs

2019-12-08 Thread Aditya Parameswaran
Michael, Great to connect with you. Sajjadur forwarded your email to me. Just a bit of context about the work that you're referring to -- I'm Aditya Parameswaran, an assistant professor at UC Berkeley. Along with Prof. Karrie Karahalios at the University of Illinois and many Ph.D. student rese