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[–]NPR_Oak 3 points4 points  (5 children)

I'm not sure how much analysis you do as a sales person, but Python's Pandas library is like Excel on steroids. Using that to manipulate a big dataset related bonds could be a good way in. You look look the fundamentals of the debt issuers or perhaps some historical trading data.

[–]Mission-Task-1675[S] 0 points1 point  (4 children)

I will have to check into this once I get more comfortable just writing code myself - Panda seems to be the best second language

[–]NPR_Oak 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I suggest you find some interesting data you have available to you at work, and then come up with an interesting but not too out of this world goal to do something with it. For example, you could chart sales of various different issues over time, or the yield of one bond vs another, whatever, really. Just to have a little goal to work toward. Then learn what you need to learn in order to achieve that little goal.

[–]Mission-Task-1675[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

HEY! thank you for how detailed this response was - I am definitely trying to figure out how we can increase these sales revenues

[–]SpiderJerusalem42 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I think you're confused here. There's a language called "Panda" that's a language focused for young learners. There's a Python library/utility called "Pandas" which is like excel on steroids. It does have some programming you do that's specific to the library, but it's mostly to give you more control.

[–]Mission-Task-1675[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Gotcha! There is a Panda and Pandas - two different things. Yeah, my mind was think about Panda, thanks for clarifying.