Is Python better than R for data science?

Question

Is Python better than R for data science?

Answer 1

The answer to this question depends.

R is built for data analysis. It is very rich in data analysis, munging and visualization. It has a wide variety of 3rd party packages for lots of things in various domains.

Python is a  general-purpose programming language. It can be applied to various tasks and one of them is data science.

Also, many  R functionalities/packages were getting ported to Python. One well-known package in Python Pandas. This package provides a lot of utilities for data analysis. There many other packages that are ported to Python. If available Python packages are sufficient for your work, you can choose Python over R. The advantage is that you can use Python for many other things in addition to data science. If you are a beginner and want to know more about Python and R programming language then do refer the following video tutorials: 

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