R, Python Duel As Top Analytics, Data Science software – KDnuggets 2016 Software Poll Results
R remains the leading tool, with 49% share, but Python grows faster and almost catches up to R. RapidMiner remains the most popular general Data Science platform. Big Data tools used by almost 40%, and Deep Learning usage doubles.
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Full Results and 3-year trends
The following table shows the poll results in detail, excluding Deep Learning tools for which 3 year results are not available.% alone is the percent of tool voters used only that tool alone, shown only for tools that have 5% or such votes. For example, 11.4% of RapidMiner users have used only Rapidminer.
What Analytics, Big Data, Data mining, Data Science software you used in the past 12 months for a real project? [2895 voters] | |
Legend: red: Free/Open Source tools
green: Commercial tools Fuchsia: Hadoop/Big Data tools |
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R (1419) | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Python (1325) | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
SQL (1029) | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Excel (972) | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
RapidMiner (944), 11.7 % alone | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Hadoop (641) | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Spark (624) | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Tableau (536) | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
KNIME (521) | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
scikit-learn (497) | ![]() ![]() na |
Java (487) | ![]() ![]() na |
Anaconda (462) | ![]() na na |
Hive (359) | ![]() ![]() na |
MLlib (337) | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Weka (315) | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Microsoft SQL Server (314) | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Unix shell/awk/gawk (301) | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
MATLAB (263) | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
IBM SPSS Statistics (242) | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Dataiku (227), 18.1 % alone | ![]() ![]() na |
SAS base (225) | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
IBM SPSS Modeler (222) | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
SQL on Hadoop tools (211) | ![]() ![]() na |
C/C++ (210) | ![]() ![]() na |
Other free analytics/data mining tools (198) | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Other programming and data languages (197) | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
H2O (193) | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Scala (180) | ![]() ![]() na |
SAS Enterprise Miner (162) | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Microsoft Power BI (161) | ![]() ![]() na |
HBase (158) | ![]() ![]() na |
QlikView (153) | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Microsoft Azure Machine Learning (147) | ![]() ![]() na |
Other Hadoop/HDFS-based tools (141) | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Apache Pig (132) | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
IBM Watson (121) | ![]() ![]() na |
Rattle (103) | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Salford SPM/CART/Random Forests/MARS/TreeNet (100), 63.0 % alone | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Gnu Octave (89) | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Orange (89) | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Alteryx (87) | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
RapidInsight/Veera (87), 51.7 % alone | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
TIBCO Spotfire (80) | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Apache Mahout (74) | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Other paid analytics/data mining/data science software (71) | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Dato (69) | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Pentaho (68) | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Perl (67) | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
IBM Cognos (64) | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Splunk/ Hunk (63) | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
JMP (58) | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
C4.5/C5.0/See5 (58) | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Amazon Machine Learning (55) | ![]() ![]() na |
Mathematica (53) | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Microsoft other ML/Data Science tools (46) | ![]() na na |
Vowpal Wabbit (45) | ![]() ![]() na |
Microstrategy (45) | ![]() ![]() na |
SAP Analytics (42) | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Stata (39) | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Dell/StatSoft (36), 8.3 % alone | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
XLMiner (35) | ![]() na na |
SAP HANA (35) | ![]() na na |
Julia (32) | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Oracle Adv. Analytics (31) | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
BigML (25), 16.0 % alone | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Zementis (25) | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
BayesiaLab (18) | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Alpine Data Labs (16), 12.5 % alone | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
DataRobot (15), 6.7 % alone | ![]() na na |
Datameer (13), 7.7 % alone | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Lavastorm (12) | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
F# (11) | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Clojure (11) | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Actian (10) | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
WordStat (10) | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Ayasdi (9) | ![]() ![]() na |
Skytree (8) | ![]() ![]() na |
Lisp (7) | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Ontotext GraphDB (6) | ![]() ![]() na |
SiSense (5) | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Birst (5) | ![]() ![]() na |
FICO Model Builder (5) | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
WPS World Programming System (4) | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Angoss (3) | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Predixion Software (2) | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Additional tools not included but mentioned in the comments include
- XLSTAT
- BeyondCore
- Timi and Anatella
- SAS/STAT
- Domino Data Lab
- MapR
- Neural Designer
- Javascript
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