Data professionals prefer analytics tools over business intelligence tools when getting insights from their data. Nearly half of data professionals surveyed in Kaggle’s 2020 Data Science and Machine Learning Survey said they do not use BI tools. The top tool used by data professionals to analyze data are local development environments (48%), followed by basic […]
Data professionals of all stripes, including data scientists, machine learning engineers and others, use different types of tools in their jobs. A recent survey of over 20,000 data professionals by Kaggle revealed that Python, SQL and R continue to be the most popular programming languages. The most popular, by far, was Python (86% used). Additionally, […]
A survey of over 19,000 data professionals showed that nearly 2/3rds of respondents said they analyze data to influence product/business decisions. Only 1/4 of respondents said they do research to advance the state of the art of machine learning. Different data roles have different work activity profiles with Data Scientists engaging in more different work […]
Analysis of usage of 5 primary tools used to analyze data showed that the top tool used by data professionals to analyze data are local development environments (54%), followed by basic statistical software (20%), cloud-based data software and APIs (8%), advanced statistical software (6%) and business intelligence software (6%). Tool usage differed across different job […]
Results of a worldwide survey of data professionals, the top used Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) are: Jupyter (73% have used), Visual Studio (31%), RStudio (30%), PyCharm (29%) and Notepad++ (22%). Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) helps programmers consolidate different aspects of software development. An IDE typically consists of: 1) source code editor, 2) build automation tools […]
A recent study found that about 2/3rds of data professionals hold either a Master’s (46%) or Doctoral (17%) degree and about a quarter of them hold a Bachelor’s degree. Additionally, the top platforms used by data professionals for data science courses are: Coursera (44%), Kaggle (25%) and Udemy (24%). Kaggle conducted a worldwide survey in […]
The practice of data science, including work in machine learning and artificial intelligence, requires the use of analytics tools, technologies and programming languages. A recent survey of nearly 20,000 data professionals by Kaggle revealed that Python, SQL and R continue to be the most popular programming languages. The most popular, by far, was Python (87% […]
Customer experience management (CXM) programs are necessarily a quantitative endeavor, requiring CX professionals to decipher insights from a sea of customer data. In this post, I will illustrate how you can use IBM Watson Studio to analyze one source of customer data, customer survey responses, to answer two important questions about the health of your […]
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