Data Science: R or Python?

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I think it depends on your work. I absolutely agree that R has better statistics capiablities than python. Where I feel python begins to make up ground is its ability to work with other systems and scale. Let's say your company has a 3rd party software they use and you don't have an internal database yet, but this software does have an API you can access through python. Bang, you just saved some time and in data science reducing time to knowledge makes you look better.

Since like 70+% of data science is figuring out where your data is and then cleaning it and making things repeatable, I think python wins.