Python vs R for data science: Professor rates programming language rivals R expert hopes to settle the debate with an analysis of the programming languages that's "fair and helpful".

At Springboard, we pair mentors with learners in data science. We often get questions about whether to use Python or R – and we’ve come to a conclusion thanks to insight from our community of ...

Databot is an experimental alternative to querychat that works with R or Python. And it’s now available as an add-on for the ...

The Python-versus-R-in-Spark discussion also carries over to the production side of the equation. In the olden days of Spark (i.e. 18 months ago), putting a Spark job into production often required ...

The difference between Python and R is largely philosophical. One is a full-service language developed by Unix scripters that happened to be adopted by stat heads, big data junkies, and social ...

Harnham said that Python was now the top programming language used in data science, "with R falling firmly into second place." The remaining top-five data science technologies were SQL, AWS and Spark.

Java has a lot going for it, but it's not the top language for data science. Java professionals may want to familiarize themselves with Python or R for data science workflows.