Orange Coast Database Associates: big data

Monday, May 1, 2017

Here is a summary of the years that various programming languages appeared. Again drawn from Wikipedia. I was looking for the release dates for R and other languages and software packages used in Data Science and decided to generalize the searches.

Friday, April 28, 2017

Popularity of some programming languages/IT skills

What follows is a little survey I did on indeed.com on 4/28/17. I started off just looking for the popularity of the R language for data science but wound up broadening the search terms. I limited the search to my home state of California. It is not in any way a scientific survey but it did prove interesting as far as it went. R ranked pretty high. Right behind Python and ahead of C++. C and SQL were the top two languages. Java was 3rd. We already offer a short coding class in Java and are developing one in Python. Perhaps we will do R next. A couple other observations are that the open languages are firmly in the lead. SAS had the most mentions of the commercial statistical packages.

I often say that SQL is a foundation skill for data analysis. This survey seems to bear that out. To that I would add Python and/or R for those interested in a data science career.

skill/term	indeed mentions
microsoft excel	28,420
c	23,962
sql	15,825
linux	14,165
java	13,769
python	12,835
r	9,826
c++	8,771
javascript	8,619
microsoft access	8,199
bi	7,778
hadoop	4,461
ruby	3,715
sas	3,602
mysql	3,601
tableau	3,413
business intelligence	3,390
spark	3,284
rails	2,677
epic	2,618
matlab	2,141
etl	1,726
scala	1,685
django	668
oracle	542
spss	538
minitab	273
stata	236
cobol	135
fortran	132
medisoft	20
statistica	7

Wednesday, April 26, 2017

Wednesday, April 19, 2017

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