> This kind of Big Enterprise technology however takes away that basic agency of those Excel users, who no longer understand the business process they run and now has to negotiate with ludicrous technology dweebs for each software change. The previous pliability of the spreadsheets has been completely lost.
> Financiers are able to learn Python, and while they may never be amazing at it they can contribute to a much higher level and even make their own changes and get them deployed.
Coming from a slightly different part of the finance world (insurance) this rang very true.
I think there is a huge opportunity here to build on the Python ecosystem - which is gaining more and more ground - and provide much more powerful alternatives to Excel and legacy proprietary systems.
Also in insurance. I'm a big fan of using python to generate "read-only" pretty formatted workbooks. It makes the process more reproducible but people who "need my data in excel" still get that.
> Financiers are able to learn Python, and while they may never be amazing at it they can contribute to a much higher level and even make their own changes and get them deployed.
Coming from a slightly different part of the finance world (insurance) this rang very true.
I think there is a huge opportunity here to build on the Python ecosystem - which is gaining more and more ground - and provide much more powerful alternatives to Excel and legacy proprietary systems.