[shortrounddev2]

The R programmers I've met (3 of them) have all worked in government or science (two for the EPA, one for the DoE). All other data scientist or statistics heavy jobs I see people using python because the tooling tends to speed things up

[johnnybzane]

data.table/R is definitely faster than Pandas/Python

https://h2oai.github.io/db-benchmark/

[shortrounddev2]

I didn't mean runtime efficiency, I meant speed of iteration. People time costs more than computer time