Stop Using Excel for Data Analytics: Upgrade to Python

Tyler Folkman
Towards Data Science
8 min readJun 15, 2020

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In 2017, it was estimated that 750 million people worldwide used Excel. The population of the world in 2017 was about 7.6 billion. That means roughly 10% of the population was using Excel and I would guess mostly for data analytics. That is insane.

There is no doubt that Excel has been an incredibly important tool for companies and still has a place in the toolkit of…

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