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The 2021 Finance Analytics Neural Map — Brought to you by Christian Martinez and The Financial Fox
The demand for analytic-driven decision making across the Finance Function has continuously increased.
According to Gartner, “Finance analytics reporting and support account for almost one-third of finance function spend”.
This neural map is an attempt to bring you all the areas that a Finance professional should know in order to start using the full potential of Finance Analytics and Data Science in 2021.
We have mapped 7 key areas: Programming Languages, Places to Learn, Must Learn in 2021!, In the cloud, BI Platforms, Data Visualization and New Technologies.
Programming Languages
One of the first things that come to mind when you start thinking about data-driven decision making or analytics is programming languages.
Some Finance professionals still have the misconception that programming languages are “just an IT thing” or “super complicated things to learn that would never to be used by Finance”.
This couldn’t be further from the truth.
Languages like Python are very powerful and easy to learn. The financial industry is increasingly adopting Python for general-purpose programming and…
