Category Archives: Statistics in the News

Poll: R top language for data science three years running

Posted on September 2, 2013 by Georges Monette

KDDNuggets has completed its annual poll of top languages for analytics, data mining and data science, and just as in the prior two years the R language is ranked the most popular. R is used by almost 61% of respondents: … Continue reading →

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WSJ: Data Crunchers Now the Cool Kids on Campus

Posted on March 3, 2013 by Georges Monette

An interesting article from the Wall Street Journal on the growth of interest in statistics on U.S. campuses

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