I’ve been pondering this for some time, at a personal level. R is a great language, fully capable of working well in an organization that embraces it. But therein lies the problem. If you’re trying to encourage the adoption of code-based data analysis in an environment that only knows low/no-code tools currently, the “lift” of adopting Python based tools seems significantly lower than it does for R. Particularly as all of the major data platforms seem to have native Python integration and relatively good documentation on it.

I don’t really know the answer to this question, but I DO think it’s time for me to try using Python on a day-to-day basis. To answer the sorts of questions that I’ve used R for over the past 5 or 6 years.

Should be fun!