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(This article was first published on <strong><a href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/06/pypl-programming-language-trends.html"> Revolutions</a></strong>, and kindly contributed to <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/">R-bloggers)</a> </div>
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<p>The new <a rel="nofollow" href="http://pypl.github.io/PYPL.html" target="_blank">PYPL Popularity of Programming Languages</a> (June 2018) index ranks Python at #1 and R at #7.</p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://pypl.github.io/PYPL.html" target="_blank"><img alt="PYPLJune018" title="PYPLJune018" src="http://revolution-computing.typepad.com/.a/6a010534b1db25970b022ad39a9ca5200b-400wi"></a></p>
<p>Like the similar <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index//" target="_blank">TIOBE language index</a>, the PYPL index uses Google search activity to rank language popularity. PYPL, however, fcouses on people searching for tutorials in the respective languages as a proxy for popularity. By that measure, Python has always been more popular than R (as you'd expect from a more general-purpose language), but both have been growing at similar rates. The chart below includes the three data-oriented languages tracked by the index (and note the vertical scale is logarithmic).</p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://revolution-computing.typepad.com/.a/6a010534b1db25970b022ad37abd9b200d-pi" target="_blank"><img alt="PYPL trend Jun 2018" title="PYPL trend Jun 2018" src="http://revolution-computing.typepad.com/.a/6a010534b1db25970b022ad37abd9b200d-400wi"></a></p>
<p>Another language ranking was also released recently: the annual <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.kdnuggets.com/2018/05/poll-tools-analytics-data-science-machine-learning-results.html" target="_blank">KDnuggets Analytics, Data Science and Machine Learning Poll</a>. These rankings, however, are derived not from search trends but by self-selected poll respondents, which perhaps explains the presence of Rapidminer at the #2 spot.</p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.kdnuggets.com/2018/05/poll-tools-analytics-data-science-machine-learning-results.html" target="_blank"><img alt="Kdnuggets" title="Kdnuggets" src="http://a3.typepad.com/6a0105360ba1c6970c022ad37abf43200d-400wi"></a></p>
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