There’s a chance component to why Python is so popular in data analysis. But I’ve seen many non-programmers get into computational science. Like biologists doin

There’s a chance component to why Python is so popular in data analysis. But I’ve seen many non-programmers get into computational science. Like biologists doing bioinformatics. And my gut feel is it’be harder to get them into Ruby compared to Python. I have experience explaining tidyverse vs vanilla in R. Tidyverse libraries have a lot of synthetic sugar as well. But it’s challenging to get newcomers to appreciate it, because you have to always go an extra mile to explain what it means. Whereas vanilla(and Python) is closer to what they studied in CS101. So the whole machine learning for ruby is going to be very niche.