This post is contributed by Burtch Works’ data engineering recruiting team. Curating a resume can undoubtedly become a challenge, especially for an early career BI professional. Accurately portraying your skills, breadth of experience and knowledge within a few short pages is the key to landing a position in today’s market. There are many online guides… Read more »
After 8 years, the race is officially over! Python is the tool of choice for data scientists & analytics professionals now and for the foreseeable future. As many of you probably know, we started this survey in 2014 to ask industry professionals whether they preferred using SAS or R, then adding Python in 2016 as… Read more »
Each year for the past seven years, we’ve asked data scientists and analytics professionals whether they prefer to use SAS, R, or Python and examined their responses to see how tool preferences vary by a variety of factors. What began as a comparison just between SAS and R users in 2014 and 2015, the debate became even more… Read more »
Each year for the past six years, we’ve asked data scientists and analytics professionals whether they prefer to use SAS, R, or Python and examined their responses to see how tool preferences vary by a variety of factors. What began as a “spirited” debate between SAS and R users in 2014 and 2015, became even more animated when… Read more »
Burtch Works Foreword After examining the results of our 2018 SAS, R, or Python flash survey to determine how the tool preferences of data scientists and analytics professionals vary by a myriad of factors, we decided to turn our dataset over to an actual data scientist to see what else could be found in the… Read more »
The results of our 2019 SAS, R, or Python survey have been released! Click here to see our latest analysis. For the past five years we’ve been surveying our network of data scientists and analytics professionals to determine which tool they prefer to use – SAS, R, or Python. Our most popular annual flash survey… Read more »
The results of our 2019 SAS, R, or Python survey have been released! Click here to see our latest analysis. As many of you probably know, over the past few years we’ve been gauging statistical tool preferences among data scientists and predictive analytics professionals by sending out a flash survey to our network: the first… Read more »
The results of our 2019 SAS, R, or Python survey have been released! Click here to see our latest analysis. For many quantitative business professionals, the debate around analytics tools has been known to rival the enthusiasm of political conversations at Thanksgiving dinner. Over the past two years we’ve sent out an immensely popular SAS… Read more »
The results of our 2018 SAS, R, or Python survey have been released! Click here to see our latest analysis. As some of you may know, last month we conducted a flash survey of our network of analytics professionals and data scientists to try to quantify their preference for either SAS or R. After we… Read more »
The results of our 2018 SAS, R, or Python survey have been released! Click here to see our latest analysis. The topic of SAS vs. R is hotly-debated everywhere, from Reddit forums to LinkedIn groups to around the water cooler with your data analytics team, with no clear consensus. So, last year, Burtch Works… Read more »
