While R is not a great language, it's a great language to work with. It has a huge ecosystem of libraries and a very active community. It's unmatched for statis

While R is not a great language, it's a great language to work with. It has a huge ecosystem of libraries and a very active community. It's unmatched for statistical analysis (even by python), so it does great for data science. I'm sure Mathematica could be great too, but I'm not sure how big of a community it has.