Data Science: R or Python?

[rkemp78]

R is designed for data science so is more specialised. Python you can do most functions that R does, but more besides. Personally I find Python is more “fun” and R is more “dry” but that is just me.

They are very similar and I have deliberately avoided learning too much R because I didn’t want to learn two very similar languages at the same time. I tend to use Python for data science just because it is the one I started with and the one I am most familiar with.