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<p>The <a target="_blank" href="https://mran.microsoft.com/documents/what-is-r/">open-source R language</a> is the most frequently used analytics / data science software, selected by 49% of the 2895 voters of the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.kdnuggets.com/2016/06/r-python-top-analytics-data-mining-data-science-software.html">2016 KDNuggets Software Poll</a>. (R was also the <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2015/05/r-tops-2015-kdnuggets-software-poll-.html">top selection in last year's poll</a>.) Python was a close second at 45.8%, and SQL was third at 35.5%. (Respondents could select multiple tools in the poll, and 6 tools were selected on average.)</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.kdnuggets.com/2016/06/r-python-top-analytics-data-mining-data-science-software.html"><img title="KDnuggets2016" alt="KDnuggets2016" src="http://revolution-computing.typepad.com/.a/6a010534b1db25970b01b7c86d17a6970b-800wi" border="0"></a></p>
<p>While this is a self-selected poll (not a scientific survey), the results have been remarkably consistent over the 16 years that it has been conducted. This year's top 10 is very <a target="_blank" href="http://www.kdnuggets.com/2015/05/poll-r-rapidminer-python-big-data-spark.html">similar to that in 2015</a>, the notable changes being Python's leap from #4 to #2 ranking, and scikit-learn (the machine-learning library for Python) joining the top 10 at the expense of SAS (which drops to #18 this year).</p>
<p>2016 also saw increased use of Big Data tools (particularly Hadoop and Spark, the latter seeing a 91% increase in use) and Deep Learning tools. For details on those results and a complete analysis of the poll results, follow the link below.</p>
<p>KDnuggets: <a target="_blank" href="http://www.kdnuggets.com/2016/06/r-python-top-analytics-data-mining-data-science-software.html">R, Python Duel As Top Analytics, Data Science software – KDnuggets 2016 Software Poll Results</a></p>
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