[wodenokoto]

I always thought the core user were statisticians and the hype around data science and ML called for a new way of looking at statistics (accuracy of predictions over interpretation of models) and with this a new language of choice.

“R is for statistics, but if you want to do machine learning you have to use Python”

Which is ironic given that pythons success as a data science tool is built on the back of a matlab clones.

[bonadrag]

Perhaps in the past, not that statisticians left, but I am referring to "users", not developers.