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Probably the most popular non-software engineer language for working with data. Millions and millions of users that have no idea what this blog post is technic

Probably the most popular non-software engineer language for working with data. Millions and millions of users that have no idea what this blog post is technically about (but is interesting nonetheless)

NegativeLatency 6y ago
Second after Excel?
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- kickout 6y ago
  Fair, although I would say Excel and R are serving two separate purposes. But yes, Excel is of course #1
  - wtetzner 6y ago
    > Fair, although I would say Excel and R are serving two separate purposes. It's true that they target different use cases overall (obviously with some overlap), but Excel tends to be used for lots of things that would be better handled with a different tool, because it's what people know.
ISL 6y ago
Matlab has a substantial userbase, too.
- kickout 6y ago
  Agreed, but IMO R >> MatLab and SAS over the past ~10 years. Both Matlab (physics??) and SAS (pharma/financial) seem to have further sunk into deep niches.
  - mjn 6y ago
    Matlab is still big in engineering as well. Matlab+Simulink in particular seems to have a fairly entrenched niche.
ImaCake 6y ago
I think this nails it. Given both python and R, these people will pick R because the motivation for using R is very clear, it does data analysis and statistics. Whereas python kinda does everything and that makes it a bit more tricky to understand.