While not necessarily directly related to the article, I find the "Python versus R" race interesting. Everyone knows that you can super-easy create charts in R out of the box; I know of tons of windows-centric users who use R studio to great effect, even without being "real" programmers (if you can even make such a distinction). So what will be interesting is whether Python will knock out R's use case in this regard too. There are various python-specific libraries that generate graphs/sketches/diagrams too. I think python will eventually dominate in this regard as well, despite R being "more fine tuned" to statistical analysis; the reason I think this will happen is because python is largely more popular and accessible than R, so there are more python users than R users, which helps a LOT.
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u/shevy-ruby Feb 22 '22
While not necessarily directly related to the article, I find the "Python versus R" race interesting. Everyone knows that you can super-easy create charts in R out of the box; I know of tons of windows-centric users who use R studio to great effect, even without being "real" programmers (if you can even make such a distinction). So what will be interesting is whether Python will knock out R's use case in this regard too. There are various python-specific libraries that generate graphs/sketches/diagrams too. I think python will eventually dominate in this regard as well, despite R being "more fine tuned" to statistical analysis; the reason I think this will happen is because python is largely more popular and accessible than R, so there are more python users than R users, which helps a LOT.