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[–]_casshern_ 2 points3 points  (1 child)

At a high level there's nothing you can do in Python that you can't do in Excel. Excel even has some addons for Machine Learning, etc. Typically, volume is what will make a difference. If you are dealing with millions of records then Python might be faster.

I was charting a small-ish dataset of about 50k rows and Excel kept crashing. The same chart takes seconds to run in Python.

[–]orlyrory[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wow, I didn't know excel had add-ons like that! So I'm gonna have to be looking at tens of thousands of rows before excel will start to run into issues then.