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For sure, Job listings are a proxy and should be taken with salt. 3501 python jobs, 2490 R jobs still indicates strong demand for R though, even if it's not goi
by nomilk 5y ago
For sure, Job listings are a proxy and should be taken with salt. 3501 python jobs, 2490 R jobs still indicates strong demand for R though, even if it's not going as bananas as python right now.
I suspect a lot of python jobs would hire a good 'R person' knowing they'll be up to speed in a month or two, and vice versa. Similar to other CS domains, where strong fundamentals are much more important than whatever language you learned them in.
- jstx1 5y ago> 3501 python jobs, 2490 R jobs still indicates strong demand for R though My point is that out of those 2490 job listings that mention R, the number of jobs that require you to actually write R more than any other language will be closer to 0 than it is to 2490. Some of them will still actually use R but it's a much much smaller number than the visualisation leads you to believe.
- nomilk 5y agoThe data seems to support your idea. Although there were 2370 jobs that mentioned both python and R, there were about 9 times as many 'python only' jobs (261) as there were 'R only' jobs (31): https://i.imgur.com/vkjGSyU.png https://i.imgur.com/vkjGSyU.png