2016-06-09 Old R or Young Python?
Python was conceived in 1990 (source Wikidepia). Not so young maybe compare to R which is in fact younger but inspired from a much older language S born around 1975. Why bringing back this question when every data scientist knows both, when universities teach both? Difficult to say which one is best according to R and python usages. According to Top Data Scientists to Follow & Best Data Science Tutorials on GitHub, Python seems to be more popular among the top data scientist on GitHub. But is there any competition? Choosing R or Python for data analysis? An infographic
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Every data scientist is using both language but all of them are using mostly one. Then a former student told me that little story. His company was using R as a preferred language but as new hires joined, Python became more and more popular. I was thinking maybe we should compare the average age of people mostly using one or the other.
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Xavier Dupré
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