Coding in Investment research

Hi! I've always felt I was at a disadvantage by not being able to code but it's a long road to learning essentially another language and a significant time investment. How many of you, who are equity or macro analysts, actually use your coding skills to help with data wrangling/visualization >= once a week?

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