Building a Better Spreadsheet
Java powers analytic breakthroughs
at QuantCell Research.
BY DAVID BAUM
(Left to
right) Agust
Egilsson, Kris
Thorleifsson,
and Bjorn
Jonsson at
QuantCell
Research
headquarters
in Reykjavik,
Iceland
If you want to change the world, you need to start with a mission that everybody can understand. Similarly, if you want
to change the face of analytics, you need a
simple paradigm that people can quickly
comprehend. You don’t invent a new programming language or craft a radical user
interface; instead, you leverage the existing
productivity tools that people know and love.
It was precisely this philosophy that motivated Agust Egilsson to develop QuantCell, a
software environment for constructing visually rich models and big data analytics and
applications. Rather than devising a new programming motif, Egilsson adopted one that
animates businesses everywhere: the familiar
spreadsheet interface. And instead of writing
a new integrated development environment,
he appropriated Java, the most versatile
programming language of the modern age.
The result is a powerful end-user environment that lets researchers, analysts, domain
experts, and developers analyze any type of
data in a fast, compelling way.
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