TableTemplates Data Notes https://tabletemplates.com/podcast/ A short show about the spreadsheets people actually look for. Each episode takes one open dataset published by TableTemplates, walks through its rows and totals, and says plainly where the numbers stop being reliable. Transcripts with every figure written out: https://tabletemplates.com/podcast/ . Narrated with a synthetic voice; the data and the analysis are ours. en-us Audio and transcripts by TableTemplates, shared under CC BY 4.0 Sun, 20 Sep 2026 15:39:01 +0000 be33c7bf-e2ed-5851-b3f4-cebeefc529e5 no TableTemplates Data Notes Marcel Guerfani, TableTemplates A short show about the spreadsheets people actually look for. Each episode takes one open dataset published by TableTemplates, walks through its rows and totals, and says plainly where the numbers stop being reliable. Transcripts with every figure written out: https://tabletemplates.com/podcast/ . Narrated with a synthetic voice; the data and the analysis are ours. episodic false Marcel Guerfani support@tabletemplates.com https://tabletemplates.com/podcast/cover.png TableTemplates Data Notes https://tabletemplates.com/podcast/ Episode One: US Search Demand for Spreadsheet Templates, 1,008 Keywords Read Out Loud https://tabletemplates.com/podcast/us-spreadsheet-demand-2026/ tabletemplates-data-notes-ep01-us-spreadsheet-demand-2026 Sun, 20 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Episode one opens the TableTemplates open dataset of US search demand for spreadsheet templates: 1,008 keywords, 200,090 estimated searches a month, 16 categories. What the shape of that demand looks like (the 50 largest phrases carry 48.4 percent of it), which categories are deep rather than wide, and three findings that ran against expectation: the gantt chart is a rounding error, the word free is rare, and 66.1 percent of the demand names Excel outright. Every number is recomputed from the published CSV. Dataset, method and citations: https://tabletemplates.com/research/ and https://tabletemplates.com/cite-this-data/ . Narrated with a synthetic voice. Episode one opens the TableTemplates open dataset of US search demand for spreadsheet templates: 1,008 keywords, 200,090 estimated searches a month, sorted into 16 categories. We read the shape of that demand (the 50 largest phrases carry 48.4 percent of it), compare categories that are deep against categories that are wide, and cover three findings that ran against expectation: the gantt chart is a rounding error inside project management, the word free appears in only 65 keywords, and 66.1 percent of the volume names Excel outright.

Every figure spoken in this episode is recomputed from the published CSV before release. You can download the file, read the method and check the totals yourself on the full dataset and methodology page, and the ready-made APA, MLA and BibTeX formats are on how to cite this data.

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