On a related note. I was involved prototyping olap cubes (Microsoft stack) at my dayjob. HUGE success in terms of value added to the business. Sr Management

On a related note. I was involved prototyping olap cubes (Microsoft stack) at my dayjob. HUGE success in terms of value added to the business. Sr Management was used to getting stale data (at least 24 hours old) of things like trading positions, profit/loss, alpha/beta/gamma for portfilios, etc. in Excel pivot table canned reports. We turned that into same-day, build-your-own reports in your web browser. My group spun it off into a separate project group that took it all the way to effectively-realtime views of the entire company's money. The project rapidly became 100% mission critical and the related display framework absorbed just about every other reporting tech in the entire company. (This was in a 9billion/yr trading company with a few hundred employees) So, if you're a pythonista looking to make yourself more visibly valuable to the management of your company. Consider taking something like this technology and running with it.