What open source programming language is the best for data science, R or Python?

Turbodbc is a Python module to access relational databases via the Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) interface. In addition to complying with the Python Database API Specification 2.0, turbodbc offers built-in NumPy support. Don’t wait minutes for your re... (more…)

On december the 8th Guido van Rossum (also known to be the BDFL or the Python project) announced on his twitter account that Python 3.6...

We recently explored how wealthy countries (those defined as high-income by the World Bank) tend to visit a different set of technologies than the rest of the world. Among the largest differences we saw was in the programming language Python. When we focu... (more…)

The data science ecosystem: R vs Python vs Substitutes   In this post, I show a network analysis of the R and Python ecosystems in terms of their competitors. …