I have been working in Excel for many many years. I have been working on VBA and creating the workbook objects to automate many of the boring stuff. When I discovered google sheets a few years ago I was excited to use GAS instead of the VBA being familiar with javascript I felt at home. Then I met Jupyter Notebooks and everything changed. I cant express how excited I am for this project and it’s possible that it is going to change the way accountants work from here on out. I am so excited to share this that I ran to the MacBook and had to type it out. If you are drowning in a sea of spreadsheets and using Microsoft Outlook as Version control I would check out Jupyter Labs. I still work daily in Excel because I am in Public company and let’s face it Microsoft Office rules most of the corporate world. Excel offers way less barrier of entry for most people and college grads however Jupyter could becoming the new requirement for analysts. Automation is coming and once we can index most of the bookkeeping vendors most tasks will be automated.
I have tried to hedge my career and most of my goals against automation to empower my skills as an analytical mindset and looking to programming.
Jupyter Labs offered this to me. Jupyter gives you the ability to work in python, R and Julia. I am just scratching the surface here of all its capabilities and am excited to share and learn more! Many thanks to anyone the team that put this together and I will continue to refine my focus and get my blog onto a centralized topic once my journal efforts subside. Stay present and remember that life is a gift thats why we call it the present. = )
Bradley Puskar 