Python has become 50% more popular than R for Data Science

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Python has moved from being 20% more popular for data science to being 50% more popular over the past two years.

The figures are found by comparing the number of data scientist job listings posted on Australia's main jobs website during the 2020 and 2021 financial years (i.e. July 2019 through June 2021).

Full source: https://www.kaggle.com/nomilk/exploring-2-years-of-data-scie...

Raw data: https://www.kaggle.com/nomilk/data-science-job-listings-aust...

So SAS, Tableau, & Matlab all jumped too?

SAS and Tableau more than doubled. And Matlab more than tripled!

I'd guess SAS's increase could be due to companies needing more reporting tools built to understand trends during COVID-19. Tableau's growth perhaps a combination of that, as well as organic rise in popularity for ease of producing slick, informative visualisations. Matlab's rise I cannot explain.

>Matlab's rise I cannot explain.

Having used matlab briefly, I am in no better position to explain it either.

My guess is that it has more to do with popularity of the term "data scientist" in job ads than the popularity of those products. Total results for SAS etc are probably a lot more stable.

Tableau really is a great product.

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