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Soon? Check history of languages, they tend to be around (and dominate) for a long time - span often as long as your career.
Depends on what you want to do. There's the old guard - the consultants and such. If you ask them then this is all just tech stuff.
Then there's the whole tech industry which has subsumed (and continues to subsume) whole other industries. If you ask them, this is critical. They don't care much for your excel skills.
+1 to that. Excel is grunt work too. But if you thought it important to know how to use excel then you should think the same about Python
Good to learn, but some other language will replace these soon. Like the newman character in seinfeld says “the mail never stops, it just keeps coming and coming and coming"
Could be completely wrong, but I've always been of the mindset that you should know enough about technology (or coding) that you can speak in terms that tech folks understand and can frame so non tech people understand. So I'm aiming for that level of proficiency.
Confused. Thoughts?
^That is non negotiable in my opinion as well. I am talking about getting into coding at a more deeper level. I know R and can quickly run lasso regressions or plot fun stuff. But there is much more than that. Like checking gradient values in a convolutions neural network and making decisions. I am torn on that front whether the effort is worth it
I’ll make someone else do the hard work
My ability to code has saved my projects, cumulatively, probably about about a man-year of labor; mostly data -related problems I was able to fix with a quick script
As a functional person who is interested in learning Python, what are a couple use cases where it could be applied?