As much as people in finance love their excel spreadsheets, it’d be lovely if the programming skills of data scientists were adopted. Excel is so horribly ineff

As much as people in finance love their excel spreadsheets, it’d be lovely if the programming skills of data scientists were adopted. Excel is so horribly inefficient when it comes to reproducibility, auditing, and updating. I can only imagine how much time is wasted throughout enterprises updating models like this because someone some time made a change that wasn’t documented — giving erroneous results.