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Re:Finance Pros Say You’ll Have to Pry Excel Out of Their Co... by opportune on Thursday November 30, 2017 @06:51PM (#15820754)
Ehh I doubt most quants are interacting much with Excel except when they need to work with non-quants. There's not much of a reason to use Excel when you could use something like Pandas instead, plus the Python libraries/environment will make everything non-tabled better to deal with anyway.
Re:Finance Pros Say You’ll Have to Pry Excel Out of Their Co... by djtriptych on Thursday November 30, 2017 @08:51PM (#15821335)
it's different now but historically quants were not well versed in software engineering. If anything it would have been R 10-15 years ago.
Re:Finance Pros Say You’ll Have to Pry Excel Out of Their Co... by hardlianotion on Friday December 01, 2017 @07:13AM (#15823367)
10-15 years ago it was excel excel excel for quants in most investment banks.
Re:Finance Pros Say You’ll Have to Pry Excel Out of Their Co... by kgwgk on Friday December 01, 2017 @02:28AM (#15822517)
R was almost irrelevant in finance 10 years ago, Matlab was much more widely used. R may have more momentum now, but I’m not sure it has overtaken Matlab yet. And C++ was, and probably remains, king.
Re:Finance Pros Say You’ll Have to Pry Excel Out of Their Co... by vostok on Friday December 01, 2017 @03:06AM (#15822610)
I think a lot of the discrepancy is explained by the fact that quant is a very widely applied title. There are quants who spend most of their day in Excel and quants who spend most of their day in C++.