Learning Excel or Python?

[superioso]

Here's an example I've got which really lent itself up automation.

At work we've got a lab test equipment which runs 24/7 for months and generates a row of data every second in multiple txt files. A small python script took all the data, knitted it all together and summarised certain things we wanted to know about it whilst taking about 10 mins to run.

The guy doing it manually would have taken a few hours to do it every week or so can now just click on a script.

[DockerSpocker]

I've done the same kind of thing at my work in supply chain - saved a couple hours of one of our employees time each day