Re:Ask HN: What tools do Data Scientists use most commonly?
by cblock811 on Friday October 24, 2014 @01:39PM
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> Should I learn R or Python?
My vote is on Python. It's more broadly useful and R has some restrictions handling really big data sets.
>Should I learn Hadoop or focus on machine learning
Focus on machine learning. If you don't need to know the Hadoop architecture then don't learn it. If you're picking up machine learning and later find you need to know Hadoop, you'll be able to pick it up.
If you need distributed computing power for projects you are working on here are some options:
My vote is on Python. It's more broadly useful and R has some restrictions handling really big data sets.
>Should I learn Hadoop or focus on machine learning
Focus on machine learning. If you don't need to know the Hadoop architecture then don't learn it. If you're picking up machine learning and later find you need to know Hadoop, you'll be able to pick it up.
If you need distributed computing power for projects you are working on here are some options:
http://zillabyte.com/ http://databricks.com/ http://aws.amazon.com/elasticmapreduce/