As seen in the post, Finance has caught on to this idea. The Bloomberg Terminal now provides BQuant. It's an almost fully functional IPython notebook with built in access to their financial datasets.
Analysts that used to work in excel are moving their models into environments like these. Libraries for most common functionality are provided, and allow someone with only a bit of VBA knowledge to feel comfortable enough to start working with python.
And when you browse places like r/financialcareers, it's filled with finance students wondering which programming languages they should learn. And the answer is always to learn python using jupyter notebooks.
Analysts that used to work in excel are moving their models into environments like these. Libraries for most common functionality are provided, and allow someone with only a bit of VBA knowledge to feel comfortable enough to start working with python.
And when you browse places like r/financialcareers, it's filled with finance students wondering which programming languages they should learn. And the answer is always to learn python using jupyter notebooks.