With any software, the more you use it, the more hacks and shortcuts you discover, and never a truer word has been said when ...

Microsoft's latest additions to Excel will likely please many looking to automate their data crunching processes.

In a recent write-up, [David Delony] explains how he built a Wolfram Mathematica-like engine with Python. Core to the system is SymPy for symbolic math support. [David] said being able to work ...