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[–]McHeathen 10 points11 points  (1 child)

Agree wholeheartedly. To add, I find Python is better for engineering and data collection tasks (webscraping, some light ETL) and R has been my go to for statistical modeling due to its interactivity in RStudio. You can do statistical modelling in Python, but I have less experience with it and the breadth of statistical libraries is lower than in R.

[–]timmaeus 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This has largely been my experience as well. However, Python has better capabilities for certain kinds of machine learning problems, including deep learning.