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mises on April 12, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Google makes BigQuery available in Sheets

Don't kid yourself, most finance guys still use Excel. Maybe a few younger ones in the valley use tools like R, Python, etc. but not in most places.

SquishyPanda23 on April 13, 2019 [–]

> Don't kid yourself, most finance guys still use Excel.

I didn't say anything about that.

You said spreadsheets are like shells for finance people. I was just pointing out that shells for finance people exist and that most prefer not to use them.

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