Programming languages Python and R are often pitted against each other over which is best for data science and analysis. Both are popular, although Python appears to be much more widely used , at ...

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.

“Python is very popular because of its set of robust libraries that make it such a dynamic and a fast programming language,” said Kristen Sosulski, clinical associate professor of information ...