Python – Ease of Integrating your code into Production

R is primarily a statistician’s language used for data science.

As a general purpose language, Python is widely used in many fields, such as web development. Python
is the go to language when your Data Analysis tasks need to be integrated with web apps or if statistics
code needs to be incorporated into a production database. Being a full-fledged programming language,
it’s a great tool to implement algorithms for production use.

Extensive number of libraries & support

Python has huge collection of cutting-edge libraries craft made for implementing Machine Learning &
Artificial Intelligence algorithms. The support for Deep Learning and Artificial Intelligence is far better in
Python compared to R thanks to libraries available like Keras, Tensorflow & Scikit-learn.

In fact, the number of developers who are creating & supporting such packages/libraries for Python is
significantly high compared to R and this number keeps on increasing day by day.

R PYTHON
vs
Data analysis & statistics Deployment & Production
Use
Scholars & Researchers Programmers & Developers
Users
Difficult to learn at the
beginning Linear & Smooth
Learning Curve
Difficult Good to deploy algorithm
Integration
Difficult Easy
Integration into production
Pandas, Numpy, Scikit-learn,
Tydiverse, Ggplot2, Caret, Zoo Keras & TensorFlow
Packages and libraries
Graphs are made to talk. R Widely used, interoperable
makes it beautiful and easily deployed
Key benefits

Number of matching jobs in the market: R vs Python

0.35
0.30
R
0.25

0.20
Python
Matching 0.15
Job Postings (%)
0.10
0.05
0.0
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