Last week, Google announced and released a beta version of Simple ML for Sheets, a TensorFlow Decision Forests-produced add-on for Google Sheets. This release is one of the first of its kind, offering many simple and some complex machine learning functionalities directly to Google Sheets users. Although Simple ML has been touted as the machine learning solution for people with no prior knowledge of machine learning, the Advanced Tasks it offers promise value to data scientists, machine learning experts and anyone else working with bigger datasets. Read on to learn more about this release and how it may shape spreadsheet-based data and machine learning projects in the future. Simple ML for Sheets is currently available in beta.

Google Drive is full of powerful tools, and Sheets is one that many rely on as an alternative to Microsoft Excel. Today, Google is debuting several new features for Sheets that are bound to become incredibly useful to its users. The first major update Sheets gets today is the ability to automatically create charts based on your various spreadsheets, taking the work off of your back and throwing it on to Google's powerful machine learning. Simply using the "explore" option, users can ask Google natural language questions based on their spreadsheet, "bar chart for ice cream sales" for example, and Google will present them with a chart that uses that data. This works a lot like Sheet's feature that uses natural language questions in place of complex formulas to pull data from complicated spreadsheets.