I don't think there is any excuse for doing analysis in excel at this point, and if any analyst came to me with either a) no coding skills or b) no interest in

I don't think there is any excuse for doing analysis in excel at this point, and if any analyst came to me with either a) no coding skills or b) no interest in developing them, I'd laugh them out of the room. My BiL is this breed. He's a financial analyst. He's got a hilarious mental block about using any kind of coding language in his work to the point that he actually developed a web-scraping app in excel. Don't ask me how. But jimmeny-christmas, use the right too for the damn job.