Python leads the 11 top Data Science, Machine Learning platforms: Trends and Analysis
Python leads the 11 top Data Science, Machine Learning platforms: Trends and AnalysisPython continues to lead the top Data Science platforms, but R and RapidMiner hold their share; Almost 50% have used Deep Learning tools; SQL is steady; Consolidation continues.
Regional Participation
The participation by region was slightly higher in the US and lower in Europe than in 2018 but very close to 2017 participation.- US/Canada, 40.6% (vs 36.6% last year)
- Europe, 33.3 (vs 37.5%)
- Asia, 12.1 (vs 11.7%)
- Latin America, 7.3 (vs 6.6%)
- Africa/MidEast, 4.5% (same)
- Australia/NZ, 2.3 (vs 3.1%)
Full Results and 3-year trends
The following table shows the poll results in detail.| KDnuggets 2019 Poll: What Analytics, Big Data, Data Science, Machine Learning software you used in the past 12 months for a real project? | |
| Software (number of voters in 2019) |
 % voters in 2019 % voters in 2018
 % voters in 2017
|
| Python (1078) | |
| RapidMiner (839) | |
| R Language (764) | |
| Excel (571) | |
| Anaconda (556) | |
| SQL Language (538) | |
| Tensorflow (519) | |
| Keras (436) | |
| scikit-learn (418) | |
| Tableau (362) | |
| Apache Spark (345) | |
| Microsoft Power BI (217) | |
| XGBoost (208) | na
na |
| Java (203) | |
| Hadoop: Open Source Tools (198) | |
| PyTorch (185) | |
| Microsoft SQL Server (184) | |
| KNIME (175) | |
| Other free analytics/data mining tools (145) | |
| SQL on Hadoop tools (138) | |
| Unix shell/awk (130) | |
| H2O.ai (117) | |
| C/C++ (116) | |
| Javascript (112) | na
na |
| Weka (109) | |
| MATLAB (100) | |
| Apache Kafka (98) | na
na |
| Other programming and data languages (94) | |
| SAS Base (93) | |
| Other Deep Learning Tools (92) | |
| IBM SPSS Statistics (87) | |
| Google Bigquery (86) | na
na |
| Microsoft Azure Machine Learning (77) | |
| Hadoop: Commercial Tools (74) | |
| Alteryx (66) | |
| QlikView (60) | |
| Scala (57) | |
| SAS Enterprise Miner (55) | |
| MLlib - Spark ML Library (52) | |
| Orange Data Mining (51) | |
| LightGBM (50) | na
na |
| Amazon Machine Learning/SageMaker (43) | |
| Databricks Unified Analytics Platform (43) | |
| BigML (43) | |
| DeepLearning4J (41) | |
| Other paid analytics/data mining/data science software (40) | |
| IBM SPSS Modeler (39) | |
| fastai library (39) | na
na |
| Dataiku (33) | |
| Apache Storm (31) | na
na |
| IBM DSX/Watson Studio (31) | |
| Gnu Octave (30) | |
| Pentaho (29) | |
| Microsoft other ML/Data Science tools (29) | |
| CatBoost (29) | na
na |
| JMP (28) | |
| Apache MXnet (28) | |
| Julia (28) | |
| Teradata (27) | |
| Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (27) | |
| Theano (26) | |
| IBM Cognos (23) | |
| Stata (22) | |
| Google Cloud AutoML (21) | na
na |
| MicroStrategy (21) | |
| DataRobot (21) | |
| Rattle Data Mining (21) | |
| Perl (21) | |
| Microsoft Machine Learning Server (20) | |
| TIBCO Spotfire (19) | |
| SAP Analytics/Predictive Analytics (18) | |
| Cloudera Data Science Workbench (18) | na
na |
| Minitab/Salford Predictive Modeler (17) | |
| Mathematica (17) | |
| C4.5/C5.0/See5 (17) | |
| Solver (former XLMiner) (15) | |
| Torch (15) | |
| Flink (13) | na
na |
| SAP HANA (13) | |
| TFLearn (12) | |
| Looker (10) | na
na |
| Sqream (10) | na
na |
| Caffe (10) | |
| WSO2 Stream Processor (9) | na
na |
| Gurobi (9) | na
na |
| Lisp (7) | |
| TIBCO Data Science (6) | |
| Sisense (5) | na
na |
| BayesiaLab (5) | |
| Altair/Datawatch/Angoss (5) | |
| Vowpal Wabbit (5) | |
| Datameer (4) | na
na |
| Oracle Data Science Platform (4) | |
| Domino Data Labs (4) | |
| Mode Analytics (4) | na
na |
Here are the results of the previous KDnuggets Polls on Analytics, Data Mining, Data Science Software:
- The 6 components of Open-Source Data Science/ Machine Learning Ecosystem; Did Python declare victory over R?, Jun 2018.
- Python eats away at R: Top Software for Analytics, Data Science, Machine Learning in 2018 - Trends and Analysis, May 2018.
- New Leader, Trends, and Surprises in Analytics, Data Science, Machine Learning Software Poll, 2017
- R, Python Duel As Top Analytics, Data Science software, 2016
- R leads RapidMiner, Python catches up, Big Data tools grow, Spark ignites, 2015
- RapidMiner Continues To Lead, 2014
- RapidMiner and R vie for first place, 2013
- KDnuggets 2012 Poll: Analytics, Data mining, Big Data software used
- KDnuggets 2011 Poll: Data Mining/Analytic Tools Used
- KDnuggets 2010 Poll: Data Mining / Analytic Tools Used
- KDnuggets 2009 Poll: Data Mining Tools Used
- KDnuggets 2008 Poll: Data Mining Software Used
- KDnuggets 2007 Poll: Data Mining/Analytics Software Tools