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I used to work for one of the largest U.S insurance companies. They were always behind in transitioning to new technology (Excel 2003 could be found there in 20

I used to work for one of the largest U.S insurance companies. They were always behind in transitioning to new technology (Excel 2003 could be found there in 2013). That being said, the entire staistical modeling team and research department made the switch to R and Python. Only a few clung to SAS but realized they would be forced to move to R as any collabration would need to be converted to R and not to SAS. I believe it will be R verus Python future and SAS will not be a part of it.

christopheraden 13y ago
I work in big insurance, too. How did you handle porting your legacy code into (R|Python)? We had tens of thousands of lines of SAS code from over the course of 10 years (macros, clinical programs, reporting functionality) of SAS programming that the higher-ups never saw the benefit of switching to Python or R to be feasible, especially with the Biostats team working on existing projects.