Python, R, SAS, or Excel/Microsoft Bi for Datascience and Business analytics?

Sounds like you need to be less cocky.

I mean what are the business needs? You can’t just be like hey learn this deep learning library in Python if he’s just going to be filtering excel spreadsheets. Also, don’t be a dick - he’s just started and you’re already trying to degrade him.

The tech doesn't matter, the solution does. If you insist, Python and(!) Java/C++ Find several teams with big data, and come up with a use case for something that mixes them. Have the new hire work on the problem start to finish, and ask that at least two recent papers be incorporated in the modeling phase. For end results, ask for materials for pitching to stakeholders and for results accessible in production (pipeline that takes new raw data, scores, and uploads everything important like scores and metrics for tracking model lifecycle to your DB) If you want to make it artificially cool sounding, force this paper about a quantum speed classical algorithm written by a child prodigy into it 😂 heads up though, terrible practice to force specific solutions just to sound cool https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.04271

Data wannabe? Someone needs to cut you down to size. He/she you’re talking about should run.