Which analytics software will dominate the market in the next 2 years?
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Data science is becoming an increasingly lucrative field to be in. The popularity of specializations in statistics and machine learning took a big leap, especially after the Harvard Business Review article calling it the "Sexiest job of the twenty-first century".
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People who wish to pick up data science are faced with a wide choice of software and languages to choose from. There is a market consolidation happening in this respect, with the playing field altered by the emergence of big data analytics platforms. Knowing the tools/languages which will dominate the market will allow aspiring data scientists to focus their learning efforts on the few technologies which will be relevant in the future.
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- Example of a domination analysis: http://r4stats.com/articles/popularity/ Link: http://r4stats.com/articles/popularity/