I’m surprised that there aren’t more comments about utilizing R AND Python for analysis work. These two languages actually commingle fairly well, you can build

I’m surprised that there aren’t more comments about utilizing R AND Python for analysis work. These two languages actually commingle fairly well, you can build in RStudio if you like that flavor and still import Python packages to use in R code. We do a significant amount of modeling and analysis on large data sets from a variety of disparate sources and utilizing several different packages have extended this out to standing up a fully free (save for AWS hosting) environments that perform modeling, allow reporting and Dashboarding automation, restful APIs for other services to call into. I’d encourage anyone looking at making the jump from Excel to ‘X’ to checkout out some of the power of flex dashboards, R Shiny, Plumber and some of the different authentication mechanisms available. Some elbow grease can create a wonderful environment.