11 Data Science in Other Languages
All of our business solutions so far have had one thing in common: they’ve used only Python. Python is standard in the world of data science, but it’s not the only language out there. The best data scientists are versatile and capable of writing code in multiple languages. This chapter contains a short introduction to both Structured Query Language (SQL) and R, two common languages that every good data scientist should know. This chapter isn’t a comprehensive overview of either language. It’s only a basic introduction that will enable you to recognize and write a few lines of SQL or R code.
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