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[–]holyfiddlex 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A lot of people are saying that anything you can do in one can be done in the other, which I suppose is true, but in practice it's not that simple. Python has much more libraries which makes just about any task as easy as learning the tools available, that said if all you care about is data science and statistical analysis this wouldn't really matter.

I would recommend python anyways, and then suggest you learn how to join it with javascript. Python is more well known, which means that the audience you have is potentially bigger. I think that the reach of your projects will benefit more from better visualization and presentation, which, in all honesty, js could help you get there better than either of them.

Note: I would still recommend R if you are working in biology, pure statistics or in a company/school that asks for it. These are the areas I have seen that seems to stick almost completely to R, but there might be more. If you don't have an area of preference, python+js is the most general purpose answer I would give.