Survery results for- What analytics/data mining software you used in the past 12 months for a real project (not just evaluation)
Survey results for- What low level programming language you used for analytics/data mining in the past 12 months in:
It is heartening to see that the big guns providing state of the art industry tools (yes - you guessed it right IBM and SAS) for data mining are not finding the top spot in this poll. The most startling thing is the #1 spot grabbed by R in both the polls. It is a language of choice by Statisticians and Data Miners especially because of the simplicity it offers through its various generic functions (a thing that Java copied somewhere around 2005, in its version 5) , and excellent support for graphs, stats and mining features such as classification, clustering and time series analysis.
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