How Python became the language of choice for data science

Re:How Python became the language of choice for data science by denzil_correa on Friday November 22, 2013 @04:47AM (#6779958)

> My impression (and I am not a statistician/data scientist in my day job, so I would very much like to hear opposing perspectives) is that the R ecosystem is far more mature and widely adopted than scikit-learn for things like regression, classification, clustering etc.

Python scores over R in one aspect - text processing.

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Re:How Python became the language of choice for data science by lightoverhead on Friday November 22, 2013 @10:33AM (#6781283)

Perl is better at that than Python.

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Re:How Python became the language of choice for data science by lightoverhead on Friday November 22, 2013 @11:45AM (#6781859)

why I get a "-1" on this? Have anyone compared processing text between Perl and Python? I really cannot agree that python is superior to Perl at this task according to my daily work. Some language is popular doesn't mean it's good at everything.

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Re:How Python became the language of choice for data science by jacalata on Friday November 22, 2013 @02:18PM (#6783064)

Because in a discussion of "a or b?", a comment on the usefulness of c is irrelevant. If you were attempting to propose that perl is a better data science language for reasons including its text processing, then you needed to say that. If you weren't attempting to do that, then nobody cares about perl in this context.

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Re:How Python became the language of choice for data science by pekk on Friday November 22, 2013 @02:09PM (#6782993)

not (a > b) does not imply (b > a), particularly if there is no clearly defined ordering over a and b

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