FWIW when I say Excel, I mean one of the big spreadsheet tools.
Excel is like Python: the second best tool for a lot of problems. There are problems which take five minutes to solve in the shell or in a text editor (maybe less now when LLMs can straight produce certain solutions with a simple prompt) and they take 10 seconds in a spreadsheet including copy and paste. I really recommend spending some time with Excel just as I recommend reading the table of contents of your primary DBMS’ manual.
I’d actually argue that being able to solve a problem quick and dirty in excel and in then in a more proper way in pandas is a good thing.
Excel is like Python: the second best tool for a lot of problems. There are problems which take five minutes to solve in the shell or in a text editor (maybe less now when LLMs can straight produce certain solutions with a simple prompt) and they take 10 seconds in a spreadsheet including copy and paste. I really recommend spending some time with Excel just as I recommend reading the table of contents of your primary DBMS’ manual.
I’d actually argue that being able to solve a problem quick and dirty in excel and in then in a more proper way in pandas is a good thing.