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Thats interesting, many people I know hate excel since its so slow, its clunky and switched to python for data since their computers overheat, freeze and crash when they work with large data sets on excel.

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Excel is incredibly powerful. Watch an accountant or financial expert in a mid to large company use it. They'll use functions you've never heard of...and don't require writing Python.

Or watch this video and level-up your Excel! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNuC6ayrNKQ

Note: Joel Spolsky (co-founder of Stack Overflow, Trello, FogBugz, more) was a program manager for Excel in 90's.

Maybe that's it, I'm not working with large data sets. My use case is more like "track all of my salary, dividend, and capital gains, and estimate how much extra I need to pay in taxes." :)

You might be better suited with jupiter notebook.

It's often much easier to do grouping and charts in Excel with a few clicks, even for someone who already knows Python in a data science context.

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