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Comment by disgruntledphd2

4 years ago

It was pandas, unfortunately. R had the stats/ML crowd for a long time, and data frames are super hard to abandon. Python had a library for them, and was perceived as being simple so it won.

R still has most of the tribal knowledge about stats/modelling though, so many really good DS's end up having to learn python to communicate with software engineers.

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