Spreadsheets are ubiquitous and tools like Excel and Minitab have been the workhorse of IS courses for decades. While these tools continue to excel at what they do, IS students need to be cognizant of the evolving skillsets needed in today's workforce, specifically the business skillsets needed to handle data that varies in size (big and small), format (potentially different from tabular structures such as spreadsheets), and medium (web, social media, etc.). We propose the use of certain educational pedagogies to help prepare IS students for this transition and argue the need for introducing elementary Python concepts to undergraduate students in IS. Students leverage what they already know, and by connecting to intuitive coding concepts in Python, can stay engaged, handle repeated tasks and simple workflow automation, and be prepared for the emerging needs of the information industry.