Which is the best one for data science, R, SAS or Python?
We are going to discuss mostly asked question by students. Everybody is concerned about their future therefore they want to know which software/tool is best whenever anybody wants learn data science.
There are three point of views about this. Let me explain below.
- Our Point of View
- Company Point of View
- Software Point of View
- Institute Point of View
Our Point of View
Most of us try to learn anyone of these 3 because some are scared of learn. some people do not want to learn because we do not find these interesting therefore we try to find best to learn that to get job.
Take away from this point is we can not learn anything by our wish we can choose industry but we need to learn those technologies which companies are asking for. and what companies are asking for we will learn in next point.
Company Point of View
There are two kind of companies product based company and services based company.
Services based companies work for other companies where if client is asking to use SAS then company will ask you to work on SAS. same way if client will ask to work on R and Python then company will ask to you work on R and Python accordingly
Now question comes whom company hire? here we have simple answer who is multi talented which means either SAS + R or SAS + Python because there is always option chosen between R and Python. When SAS will be used client will not think of Python and R because those are free. Same way if client is not having money and they have smaller data in general they will use R or Python.
Now you can ask what to learn from R and Python. Simple and strong answer to this is go for Python because Python is far stronger than R and Python solutions can be integrated with other solutions of client company easily. Python user group is huge. Python is in more demand compared to R. R should learn R only if you are working in company and there is project requirement to work on R only because project already there is R. other wise whenever any project starts we have options to choose open sources solution from R and Python.
Take away from this point is we must go for SAS + Python to get job because all organizations are asking for this. You can have look on job descriptions in job portal which will give you actual picture because job descriptions are the requirement of company and we need to learn what ever organization is asking for if we want to get job.
Software Point of View
Keeping system/computer/laptop configuration constant SAS is winner because SAS uses hard drive to process data whereas Python uses RAM to process data. Now usually when we work in any organization we do not work in our company provided systems to process huge data. we get server where you will see 300GB RAM and 4TB 10TB kind of HDD or SSD. But here as well if we make fight of both SAS and Python, then SAS will win the fight.
If we are working on Machine Learning, you will find better results easily in SAS but learning Machine Learning in SAS is not easy because few people knows this.
Same way we are want to work on Deep Learning or Tensor Flow then only python is options with us because SAS is just implementing it and it is not matured now. One more thing if you would like to implement these techniques in SAS then you will have to buy that module as well with SAS which is free in Python.
If you are working in company where there is only suppose upto 10 cr records or 20 cr records then you can process then if your system only then why would you buy SAS license. It total depends on your requirement and what software support.
Take away from this point is supportive from the point of Campany point of View because software does not anything at their own. whatever requirement organization is having. you need to work on that. therefore you must learn SAS + Python. Lots of guys process huge data in SAS and then build tensor flow and deep learning model in Python as well. SAS single proc give you all required result at once but in Python you need to run multiple codes/libraries to get same result.
Institute Point of View
Most confusing thing comes now. First time students goes to institutes to learn any technology. Now lots of money crunching institutes start suggest technologies as per their expertise. if institute is teaching Python they will say Python, if they teach SAS they will talk about SAS, same way if they teach R they will talk about.
Why I am writing this because nobody tells actually picture to students. Here we have one more thing if they will suggest two software to student then student think that they planning to make more money. Here being student. You should first go to job portals and see job description of job profile. like search for data scientist job then you will come to know what organizations are asking for. This will help you to take right decision. Do not search for SAS job because There is not job like SAS job.
These are technologies which are used in Data Scientist, Data Analyst job profiles.
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