matloff/R-vs.-Python-for-Data-Science

This Web page is aimed at shedding some light on the perennial R-vs.-Python debates in the Data Science community. As a professional computer scientist and statistician, I hope to shed some useful light on the topic. I have potential bias: I've written four R-related books, I've given a keynote talk at useR!; I currently serve as Editor-in-Chief of the R Journal; etc. But I hope this analysis will be considered fair and helpful. This is subjective, of course, but having written (and taught) in many different programming languages, I really appreciate Python's greatly reduced use of parentheses and braces: This is of particular interest to me, as an educator.