One of the biggest surprises I've gotten in a while came when I read a statement by Microsoft addressing Microsoft Excel as a programming language, they recently announced that Lambda (which is more known with backend programming languages) will incorporated into Microsoft excel thereby fulfilling all the criteria required for a tool to be considered a programming language.
We will be having a lot of excel programmers among us very soon. I did a deeper study into excel and realized that most people are barely scratching the surface of what Microsoft excel can do, there are a lot of similar terminologies between Microsoft excel and programming languages that would shock the average programmer.
Data analysis and software engineering have been perceived as cousins, with this new development, we might as well they're siblings, this might be good for companies but I fear some companies may begin to demand that software engineers wear multiple hats. I do believe that the closer data analysis gets to software engineering the better the synergy that can be gotten.