Results of a survey of data professionals show that about 1 out of 5 are women. Women are paid less than their male counterparts yet both women and men have similar levels of education.
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Computing Platforms Used Most Often for Data Science Projects
Results of a worldwide survey reveal that data professionals overwhelmingly use a personal computer or laptop as their computing platform most often for their data science projects. The next most used computing platform is a cloud computing platform and a deep learning workstation. The practice of data science requires a variety of different tools and […]
Top Job Activities for Different Data Professionals
Results of a survey of data professionals show that different data roles engage in different activities while at work. Data Scientists indicated that three activities make up an important part of their work, the most across all data roles. The top activities across all data roles were related to analyzing data to influence decisions and […]
Data Professionals Use of Analytics and Business Intelligence Tools
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 […]
For Data Professionals, Python Remains Top Programming Language while R Continues to Decline
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, […]
Top Tools Used by Data Professionals to Analyze Data
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 […]
Most Popular Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) Used by Data Scientists
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 […]
Formal Education Attained and Nontraditional Education Pursued by Data Scientists
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 […]
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