{"id":5129,"date":"2015-04-08T15:21:58","date_gmt":"2015-04-08T15:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/?p=5129"},"modified":"2015-04-14T13:14:09","modified_gmt":"2015-04-14T13:14:09","slug":"what-programming-do-predictive-modelers-need-to-know-0408152-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/what-programming-do-predictive-modelers-need-to-know-0408152-2\/5129\/","title":{"rendered":"What Programming Do Predictive Modelers Need to Know?"},"content":{"rendered":"In most lists of the most popular software for doing data analysis, statistics, and predictive modeling, the top software tools are Python and R\u2014command line languages rather than GUI-based modeling packages. There are several reasons for this, perhaps most importantly that they are free, they are robust programming languages supported by a very broad user community, and they have extensive sets of algorithms. One recent survey of software was published at r4stats.com (http:\/\/r4stats.com\/articles\/popularity\/) and contains additional metrics not usually found in software comparisons, including scholarly articles that include software, google scholar hits, and job trends in addition to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/what-programming-do-predictive-modelers-need-to-know-0408152-2\/5129\/\" class=\"more-link\">(more&hellip;)<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In most lists of the most popular software for doing data analysis, statistics, and predictive modeling, the top software tools are Python and R\u2014command line languages rather than GUI-based modeling packages. There are several reasons for this, perhaps most importantly that they are free, they are robust programming languages supported by a very broad user [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5129"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5186,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5129\/revisions\/5186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}