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I definitely think that's a large part of it, but I saw impressive uses of Excel and Access by non-coders long before it was typical to lock-down workstations t
by GordonS 5y ago
I definitely think that's a large part of it, but I saw impressive uses of Excel and Access by non-coders long before it was typical to lock-down workstations the way corporations do nowadays (like, 20 years ago).
- ashtonkem 5y agoExcel is used because it's understood by business types, not because it's the only thing available. They're comfortable with spreadsheets, it's no surprise that they'll try to solve any given problem they have with spreadsheets. You see the same thing in reverse, with programmers reaching for Python when Excel probably would've been a better choice. Everyone reaches for what's familiar.
- steve_gh 5y agoI regularly have issues with new hire data scientists straight out of Uni. Connect to database, pull multiple tables into pandas / numpy. Then start joining to find the records they want in python. Why, why, why ???