[prepend]

“If you asked me to predict what a quantitative economist would be using, it would be Python, followed by R, and maybe followed by Java or C, or something like that.”

I too was looking for good data. It’s hard to measure this as practical application doesn’t line up with publication.

I was surprised when I started working in health 10 years ago that the predominant tool was Excel, and then SAS. Even 5 years ago in health grad school, they only taught SAS.

This is slowly changing to R and python, but general data analysis skills is less than basic engineering stuff 20 years ago.

[xapata]

Some departments in the FDA require clinical trial data to be submitted in SAS formats :-/

[robterrin]

This is a myth: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2012/06/fda-r-ok.html

https://www.fda.gov/downloads/forindustry/datastandards/stud...

[xapata]

No, by the text of that same link you provided: "... origin of this fallacy is probably related to the fact that data must be submitted in the XPT "transport format" (which was originally created by SAS)." While that post goes on to say, "This [XPT] data format is now an open standard." That is somewhat disingenuous. The XPT format requires IBM Mainframe floats and other wierdness. It's not always that easy to write XPT.