What's in a data analyst? Survey suggests Python user base mainly devs • DEVCLASS

Last November, the Python Software Foundation and dev tool creator JetBrains took the pulse of the Python community for the third time. The results are out now, suggesting that Python users have gotten more into containers and mostly define themselves as developers, no matter how much data science they do. The Python Developers Survey 2019 was apparently answered by more than 24,000 Python users from over 150 countries and gives insight into what the language is used for and where. The "what" part has been relatively stable in the last three years, meaning that most respondents still say to use Python for data analysis purposes (58 per cent), followed by web development at 49 per cent. Other often cited project areas include DevOps/sysadmin/automation and machine learning (39 per cent, respectively).