[sbashyal]

I have a historical perspective on this topic. Data Science popularity was rapidly growing and "R" was the lingua franca around 2010 - 2014.

I attended Strata conference in 2014 and after visiting various technology exhibition booths there, I saw a common theme: tech companies were building data solutions using Python as R was no good for the purpose

In a meeting scheduled to share my take-aways from the conference, I predicted "Python will emerge to be the language of DataScience in few years"