Last month we reported on the results of 18th annual KDnuggets Software Poll: New Leader, Trends, and Surprises in Analytics, Data Science, Machine Learning Here is a more detailed look at which tools go well with each other, and which don't. We also find an emerging Python-friendly ecosystem of tools that are commonly used with the two leading edges of data science: Big Data (Spark/Hadoop) and Deep Learning. A link to anonymized dataset is at the end of this post - analyze the data yourself and publish or send me the results.

We examine which top tools are "friends", their Python vs R bias, and which work well with Spark/Hadoop and Deep Learning, and identify an emerging Big Data Deep Learning ecosystem.