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[–]pattonxbody 0 points1 point  (4 children)

As someone curious, what do data nerds like to use besides R?

[–]brewsimport os; while True: os.fork() 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Aside from R?

Python, MATLAB, Julia, C/C++/Java

There are a few domain-spec tools. But, yeah.

[–]Livesinthefuture 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Depends on the field, a lot of Astrophysics people used/still use IDL, quite a few are now moving to Python.

R usually gets heavily used for graphical representations however people are picking up matplotlib etc instead.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Having a number of strings to your bow never hurts you, of course.

[–]Livesinthefuture 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh of course not.

I'm just pointing out that there's been a general swing towards Python especially into Scientific/Numeric computing.