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.
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.
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What Analytics, Big Data, Data mining, Data Science software you used in the past 12 months for a real project? [2895 voters] | |
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Legend: red: Free/Open Source tools
green: Commercial tools Fuchsia: Hadoop/Big Data tools |
 % users in 2016
 % users in 2015
 % users in 2014
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| R (1419) | 49.0%
46.9%
38.5%
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| Python (1325) | 45.8%
30.3%
19.5%
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| SQL (1029) | 35.5%
30.9%
25.3%
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| Excel (972) | 33.6%
22.9%
25.8%
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| RapidMiner (944), 11.7 % alone | 32.6%
31.5%
44.2%
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| Hadoop (641) | 22.1%
18.4%
12.7%
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| Spark (624) | 21.6%
11.3%
2.6%
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| Tableau (536) | 18.5%
12.4%
9.1%
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| KNIME (521) | 18.0%
20.0%
15.0%
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| scikit-learn (497) | 17.2%
8.3%
na |
| Java (487) | 16.8%
14.1%
na |
| Anaconda (462) | 16.0%
na na |
| Hive (359) | 12.4%
10.2%
na |
| MLlib (337) | 11.6%
3.3%
1.0%
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| Weka (315) | 10.9%
11.2%
17.0%
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| Microsoft SQL Server (314) | 10.8%
9.7%
10.5%
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| Unix shell/awk/gawk (301) | 10.4%
8.0%
5.8%
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| MATLAB (263) | 9.1%
8.8%
8.4%
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| IBM SPSS Statistics (242) | 8.4%
7.7%
7.7%
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| Dataiku (227), 18.1 % alone | 7.8%
2.0%
na |
| SAS base (225) | 7.8%
11.3%
10.9%
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| IBM SPSS Modeler (222) | 7.7%
7.1%
5.7%
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| SQL on Hadoop tools (211) | 7.3%
7.2%
na |
| C/C++ (210) | 7.3%
9.4%
na |
| Other free analytics/data mining tools (198) | 6.8%
5.0%
5.1%
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| Other programming and data languages (197) | 6.8%
5.1%
3.0%
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| H2O (193) | 6.7%
2.0%
0.2%
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| Scala (180) | 6.2%
3.5%
na |
| SAS Enterprise Miner (162) | 5.6%
10.9%
7.2%
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| Microsoft Power BI (161) | 5.6%
3.6%
na |
| HBase (158) | 5.5%
4.6%
na |
| QlikView (153) | 5.3%
4.2%
3.0%
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| Microsoft Azure Machine Learning (147) | 5.1%
3.7%
na |
| Other Hadoop/HDFS-based tools (141) | 4.9%
4.5%
3.9%
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| Apache Pig (132) | 4.6%
5.4%
3.5%
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| IBM Watson (121) | 4.2%
2.1%
na |
| Rattle (103) | 3.6%
4.2%
4.9%
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| Salford SPM/CART/Random Forests/MARS/TreeNet (100), 63.0 % alone | 3.5%
2.3%
3.6%
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| Gnu Octave (89) | 3.1%
2.3%
3.9%
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| Orange (89) | 3.1%
1.9%
3.4%
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| Alteryx (87) | 3.0%
5.6%
3.1%
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| RapidInsight/Veera (87), 51.7 % alone | 3.0%
0.2%
0.5%
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| TIBCO Spotfire (80) | 2.8%
4.3%
2.8%
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| Apache Mahout (74) | 2.6%
2.8%
2.5%
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| Other paid analytics/data mining/data science software (71) | 2.5%
2.4%
1.9%
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| Dato (69) | 2.4%
0.5%
0.9%
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| Pentaho (68) | 2.3%
2.7%
2.6%
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| Perl (67) | 2.3%
2.9%
3.0%
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| IBM Cognos (64) | 2.2%
1.8%
1.8%
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| Splunk/ Hunk (63) | 2.2%
1.1%
0.7%
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| JMP (58) | 2.0%
3.1%
3.8%
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| C4.5/C5.0/See5 (58) | 2.0%
1.3%
1.5%
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| Amazon Machine Learning (55) | 1.9%
0.7%
na |
| Mathematica (53) | 1.8%
1.9%
2.3%
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| Microsoft other ML/Data Science tools (46) | 1.6%
na na |
| Vowpal Wabbit (45) | 1.6%
1.3%
na |
| Microstrategy (45) | 1.6%
0.9%
na |
| SAP Analytics (42) | 1.5%
3.0%
6.8%
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| Stata (39) | 1.3%
1.3%
1.4%
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| Dell/StatSoft (36), 8.3 % alone | 1.2%
1.7%
1.7%
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| XLMiner (35) | 1.2%
na na |
| SAP HANA (35) | 1.2%
na na |
| Julia (32) | 1.1%
1.1%
0.8%
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| Oracle Adv. Analytics (31) | 1.1%
0.8%
2.2%
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| BigML (25), 16.0 % alone | 0.9%
0.8%
0.9%
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| Zementis (25) | 0.9%
0.8%
0.8%
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| BayesiaLab (18) | 0.6%
0.6%
4.1%
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| Alpine Data Labs (16), 12.5 % alone | 0.6%
0.5%
2.7%
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| DataRobot (15), 6.7 % alone | 0.5%
na na |
| Datameer (13), 7.7 % alone | 0.4%
0.9%
0.8%
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| Lavastorm (12) | 0.4%
0.4%
0.3%
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| F# (11) | 0.4%
0.7%
0.5%
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| Clojure (11) | 0.4%
0.5%
0.5%
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| Actian (10) | 0.3%
2.0%
0.5%
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| WordStat (10) | 0.3%
0.3%
0.2%
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| Ayasdi (9) | 0.3%
2.0%
na |
| Skytree (8) | 0.3%
0.1%
na |
| Lisp (7) | 0.2%
0.4%
0.3%
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| Ontotext GraphDB (6) | 0.2%
0.0%
na |
| SiSense (5) | 0.2%
0.2%
0.1%
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| Birst (5) | 0.2%
0.1%
na |
| FICO Model Builder (5) | 0.2%
0.0%
0.2%
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| WPS World Programming System (4) | 0.1%
0.3%
0.2%
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| Angoss (3) | 0.1%
0.4%
0.4%
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| Predixion Software (2) | 0.1%
0.4%
3.7%
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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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