For work I’ve been mostly using SAS and their Enterprise Guide platform for almost all my analysis and automation. It works well enough, but the license for the company is expensive. It’s easy enough to program in and easy enough to clean and analyze data. The Finance function works well enough for most business stuff. There is a need for me to inverse matrixes, but I don’t have the IML plug-in (it’s not part of the base package). Also I don’t have licensed access to use Enterprise Miner (which is also expensive per license). This has lead to A LOT of custom code in multiple steps to do about the same thing. Talk about a learning curve.
The long and short of it is that it’s getting closer to the time where I should be using more Python and R to accomplish the same tasks. They’re free and have an absurd amount of packages that can accomplish the same tasks.
Why don’t I just use excel? Because fuck Excel and it’s not 1999. Don’t get me wrong, I use the hell out of excel, but these days it doesn’t make sense to have it be the workhorse when there can be too much human error.
All of this leads into one of the current goals: Get your Python on.
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