New Python Course

We finished the slide deck for the new Introduction to coding with Python course beta release. This is a brief five hour introductory class organized similar to our Java coding class which is in turn based on the Logical Operations courseware. As a beta release any comments would be welcome.

Introduction to coding using Python from Dan D'Urso

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.

Popularity of Programming Languages for Data Science

Below is a link to a study I found on kdnuggets.com. This is a useful website if you are interested in data science. The study is from October, 2016 so is fairly current. It is based on data from indeed.com as my earlier post was. It shows once again that Python, Java and R are the most popular programming languages for data science. Keep in mind , however, that R is a domain specific language for statistical computing. Unfortunately this study did not include commercial software, only open source. Thus SAS, etc. are not included.

KDNuggets - most popular languages for data science