Is it uncommon to do run data science projects on my personal laptop?

Hi, I work at non-tech firm, hired as a data analyst. Most of the tools that came with the job are okay for most of the routine tasks. (Things like excel, cognos, a couple in-house tools, etc)

However, my IT department said it’s not really doable to push any open-source technologies to my device, especially if the order doesn’t come straight from HQ. So I’m unable to download anything from python to Jupyter notebooks, let alone anything that is necessary …

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