How Python rose to the top of the data science world - Computer Business Review

It's safe to say that Python is a pretty popular tool across a whole range of industries and professions, thanks, no doubt, to the programming language's accessibility, wealth of libraries and frameworks, and of course, its huge community of die-hard devs that claim Python should be the tool of choice for any self-respecting developer. Packt's 2017 Skill Up survey, backed up these claims when it revealed that Python is the most-used tool for tech professionals across a range of vastly different job roles, slithering its way up from the number 2 spot in 2016. We asked Sebastian Raschka, applied machine learning and deep learning researcher and the author of Packt's best-selling book Python Machine Learning, why he always turns to Python and what's next for what is perhaps undeniably the most popular language of the last two decades. Here's what he had to say.