DARPA (the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) has awarded $3 million to software provider Continuum Analytics to help fund the development of Python’s data processing and visualization ...

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More people will find their way to Python for data science workloads, but there’s a case to for making R and Python complementary, not competitive. As data science becomes critical to every ...