[markus_zhang]

Excel is one of the reasons I want to leave a career of Business Analyst behind.

Regardless of the process, the last step is always to dump the data into Excel and spend tons of time to create good-looking charts and tables. It usually takes me a full day to do that plus write wiki pages in Confluence (another pain point).

I just want to stay away from spreadsheet -> which means I need to get further from business and get a more technical position.

[dswalter]

I think you may find R an excellent tool/ecosystem for that kind of work.

[markus_zhang]

I'm actually trying to break into BI or DE, so Python is my first choice. I also have some experience with C++ but it is not that useful for corporate development nowadays.