It highly depends on what work you need to do, but in general I use Excel for quick and dirty data crunching where the number of rows isn't that big (<100,000) and I don't expect to need to repeat the analysis often. For example, as a cyber security analyst, one-off sifting through some CSV format logs. Being able to do some basic transforms on the data with the benefit of real-time visualization is nice.
It highly depends on what work you need to do, but in general I use Excel for quick and dirty data crunching where the number of rows isn't that big (<100,000) and I don't expect to need to repeat the analysis often. For example, as a cyber security analyst, one-off sifting through some CSV format logs. Being able to do some basic transforms on the data with the benefit of real-time visualization is nice.