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R vs python

Which one is better for data science? How? (support your answer)

24th Aug 2017, 3:37 PM
Hariharasubramanian
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R is used by statisticians and economists so when they moved to data science they brought this language with them. Python is more of a general purpose programming language that you can also use for data science. It is now widely used thanks to the scikitlearn and panda modules. This would be my choice if I had to start learning a language. http://www.kdnuggets.com/2015/05/r-vs-python-data-science.html
24th Aug 2017, 4:31 PM
🔭Pierre Chary🐍
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Thank you
31st Aug 2017, 1:16 PM
Hariharasubramanian