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Ehh I doubt most quants are interacting much with Excel except when they need to work with non-quants. There's not much of a reason to use Excel when you could
by opportune 9y ago
Ehh I doubt most quants are interacting much with Excel except when they need to work with non-quants. There's not much of a reason to use Excel when you could use something like Pandas instead, plus the Python libraries/environment will make everything non-tabled better to deal with anyway.
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- djtriptych 9y agoit's different now but historically quants were not well versed in software engineering. If anything it would have been R 10-15 years ago.
- kgwgk 9y agoR was almost irrelevant in finance 10 years ago, Matlab was much more widely used. R may have more momentum now, but I’m not sure it has overtaken Matlab yet. And C++ was, and probably remains, king.
- vostok 9y agoI think a lot of the discrepancy is explained by the fact that quant is a very widely applied title. There are quants who spend most of their day in Excel and quants who spend most of their day in C++.
- hardlianotion 9y ago10-15 years ago it was excel excel excel for quants in most investment banks.