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> It's not hard to code, children do it.

My wife knows R and Python. 90% of the pain of any new project is in environments and dependencies. Some weird error message shows up because there are multiple python executables on her machine or it isn't speaking with jupityer properly and we are on a wild goose chase of googling and command lining.

For excel, you open it and run.

Even if you know how to code, setting up a coding environment has enough "wtf does this mean" roadblocks for nonexperts that it becomes a terrible experience.




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