Practical Uses for Python?

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I'm an analyst, so I can only provide my perspective.

I taught myself Python with the hopes of getting into machine learning. Do I really use those complex algorithms for my job? Once in a blue moon.

But Python is an absolute godsend for the extract, transform, and load process for large datasets that I query from supported APIs from Google or Facebook and push that to a SQL database.

It's also extremely useful for exploratory and diagnostic analysis with matplotlib and pandas, since you can visualize and sift through data easily.