KDNuggest: R most commonly used software for data mining & analytics

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In a poll with 570 respondents conducted last month at KDNuggets, the R software was the most frequent response to the question, “What programming languages you used for data mining / data analysis in the past 12 months?”. The results are tabled below (respondents could select more than one response):

Kdnuggets poll Aug2011

In another poll conducted earlier this year, KDNuggets also found that R was using in 1 in 4 real-world data analysis projects.

KDNuggets: Poll Results: Top Languages for Data Mining/Analytics

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