Python: Top Programming Language for Data Science — Intro and Implementation
Last Updated on July 25, 2023 by Editorial Team
Author(s): Farzad Mahmoodinobar
Originally published on Towards AI.
Python: Language of Choice for Data Scientists

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What are the top programming languages used by Data Scientists and Machine Learning practitioners? Kaggle performs an annual Machine Learning & Data Science survey (Paul Mooney, 2022)(CC BY 4.0), with some interesting questions, one of which is: “What programming languages do you use on a regular basis?” I summarized the results of this particular question in the table below, and it turns out that over 32% of submissions selected Python, followed by SQL, submitted by over 16% of responders. The next highest one… Read the full blog for free on Medium.
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