> which pure "A-type" data scientists tend to prefer: R, SSPS, Matlab I very much disagree and I would say it's the opposite. The only competitor for data-scie

> which pure "A-type" data scientists tend to prefer: R, SSPS, Matlab I very much disagree and I would say it's the opposite. The only competitor for data-scientists is R, especially if you're doing stats-heavy analysis (opposed to an ML-heavy analysis). SSPS is in my experience used mainly by someone without a data-scientist background, e.g. psychology, similarly to matlab, where the only users I know are engineers. I would bet that the overwhelming amount of data-scientists use python, even if it's just to set up the data-pipeline. It's just the better general programming language and data-scientist are not analysing all the time but have to get the data in shape and available first.