A lot of people who work with data use Excel and JSON. Not most Excel users, but...

smt88 · on Sept 18, 2019

Excel is huge in finance, accounting, and marketing. I don't know why anyone in those fields would routinely use JSON files.

If there's JSON somewhere that's relevant, a dev will usually just change output to CSV or something.

nailer · on Sept 18, 2019

You don't know people in finance who use JSON? Have you heard of R, SciPy or NumPy?

Additionally data science / stats folk use JSON and Excel too.

wtvanhest · on Sept 18, 2019

Just out of curiousity, who uses JSON in excel and why? (I work in corp finance, and use excel extensively)

nailer · on Sept 18, 2019

Nobody, because it doesn't support JSON. I think you've misread the comment you're replying to.

wtvanhest · on Sept 19, 2019

Got it, so you are saying that people use JSON and there is a reason you would also like to use it in Excel?

nailer · on Sept 19, 2019

Precisely.