It took the programming community a couple of decades to appreciate Python. But since the early 2010’s, it has been booming — and eventually surpassing C, C#, Java and JavaScript in popularity. But ...

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I've written a lot about data analysis with Python recently. I wanted to explain why it's been a language of choice. Here are some of the reasons I find Python so easy to use, yet powerful. Python ...

In August, the UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) warned that organizations should migrate code off Python 2 because from January 1, 2020 it will no longer receive security fixes. "If you ...

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Java can handle large workloads, and even if it hits limitations, peripheral JVM languages such as Scala and Kotlin can pick up the slack. But in the world of data science, Java isn't always the go-to ...