<p><div><div><div><div data-width="100" data-show-faces="false" data-send="true" data-layout="button_count" data-height="21" data-href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/the-most-popular-languages-for-data-scientistsengineers/"></div></div><div></div></div><div></div></div>
<div>
(This article was first published on <strong><a href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/04/stackoverflow-developer-survey.html"> Revolutions</a></strong>, and kindly contributed to <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/">R-bloggers)</a> </div>
<div>
<p>The <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://stackoverflow.com/insights/survey/2017">results of the 2017 StackOverflow Survey</a> of nearly 65,000 developers were published recently, and includes lots of interesting insights about their work, lives and preferences. The results include a cross-tabulation of the <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://stackoverflow.com/insights/survey/2017#technologies-and-occupations">most popular languages</a> amongst the &quot;Data Scientist/Engineer&quot; subset, and the results were … well, surprising:</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://stackoverflow.com/insights/survey/2017#technologies-and-occupations"><img title="Most popular language" alt="Most popular language" src="http://revolution-computing.typepad.com/.a/6a010534b1db25970b01bb098c5a3c970d-800wi" border="0"></a></p>
<p>When thinking about data scientists, it certainly makes sense to see SQL, Python and R in this list. (I've only included the top 10 above.) But it's a real surprise to see JavaScript at the top of the list, and the presence of PHP is just unfathomable to me. I think it goes to show that the &quot;Data Engineer&quot; role is a very different type of job than &quot;Data Scientist&quot;. Sadly, it's not clear what the relative proportion of Data Scientists to Data Engineers is in the survey, as it's not broken out elsewhere.</p>
<p>Nonetheless, there were several other interesting tidbits in the survey relevant to data scientists:</p>
<ul>
<li>Overall, Python is the fifth most popular language, used by 32% of respondents. R ranks #15, used by 4.4% of respondents.</li>
<li>The top three databases are MySQL (44.3%), SQL Server (30.8%) and SQLite (21.2%).</li>
<li>The most popular platforms are Windows (41%), Linux (33%) and Android (28%).</li>
<li>AWS is used by 28% of respondents; Microsoft Azure by 11.4%.</li>
<li>Python is the &quot;Most Wanted&quot; language (indicated by 21% of respondents as a language they'd like to be using).</li>
<li>Oracle is the &quot;Most Dreaded&quot; database (63% of users would rather be using a different database).</li>
<li>Visual Studio is the most popular development environment within all developer categories except &quot;Sysadmin/DevOps&quot; (in which case it's vim).</li>
<li>In the US, R developers earn $100,000pa on average. For Python, it's $99,000. &quot;Machine Learning specialist&quot;, &quot;Developer with a statistics or mathematics background&quot; and &quot;data scientist&quot; were the three highest-paying job categories in the US, all topping $100,000.</li>
<li>Developers consider Elliot Alderson from <em>Mr Robot</em> to be the <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://stackoverflow.blog/2017/03/28/realistic-developer-fiction/">most realistic portrayal of a programmer in fiction</a>.</li>
</ul>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://stackoverflow.blog/2017/03/28/realistic-developer-fiction/"><img title="Fiction" alt="Fiction" src="http://a0.typepad.com/6a0105360ba1c6970c01b8d2738cb0970c-800wi" border="0"></a></p>
<p>You can find a complete analysis of the survey data, follow the link below.</p>
<p>StackOverflow: <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://stackoverflow.com/insights/survey/2017">Developer Survey Results 2017</a></p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
</div>
<p>
<div>
<div>To <strong>leave a comment</strong> for the author, please follow the link and comment on their blog: <strong><a href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/04/stackoverflow-developer-survey.html"> Revolutions</a></strong>.</div>
<hr>
<a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/">R-bloggers.com</a> offers <strong><a rel="nofollow" href="https://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=RBloggers">daily e-mail updates</a></strong> about <a title="The R Project for Statistical Computing" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-project.org/">R</a> news and <a title="R tutorials" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/search/tutorial">tutorials</a> on topics such as: <a title="Data science" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/search/data%20science">Data science</a>, <a title="Big Data" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/search/Big%20Data">Big Data, <a title="R jobs" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-users.com/">R jobs</a>, visualization (<a title="ggplot and ggplot2 tutorials" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/search/ggplot2">ggplot2</a>, <a title="Boxplots using lattice and ggplot2 tutorials" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/search/boxplot">Boxplots</a>, <a title="Maps and gis" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/search/map">maps</a>, <a title="Animation in R" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/search/animation">animation</a>), programming (<a title="RStudio IDE for R" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/search/RStudio">RStudio</a>, <a title="Sweave and literate programming" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/search/sweave">Sweave</a>, <a title="LaTeX in R" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/search/LaTeX">LaTeX</a>, <a title="SQL and databases" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/search/SQL">SQL</a>, <a title="Eclipse IDE for R" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/search/eclipse">Eclipse</a>, <a title="git and github, Version Control System" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/search/git">git</a>, <a title="Large data in R using Hadoop" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/search/hadoop">hadoop</a>, <a title="Web Scraping of google, facebook, yahoo, twitter and more using R" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/search/Web+Scraping">Web Scraping</a>) statistics (<a title="Regressions and ANOVA analysis tutorials" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/search/regression">regression</a>, <a title="principal component analysis tutorial" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/search/PCA">PCA</a>, <a title="Time series" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/search/time+series">time series</a>, <a title="finance trading" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/search/trading">trading</a>) and more...
<img height="1" alt="" width="1" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RBloggers/~4/8r-Xz-KuS6Q"></a></div>