There are plenty of substantive open source software projects out there for data scientists, so why Python?1 After all, there is the R language. R is a robust and well-supported language written initially by statistician for statisticians. Our view is not to promote one language over the other. The goal is to illustrate how the addition of Python to the SAS user’s toolkit is a means for valuable skills augmentation. Besides, Bob Muenchen has already written R for SAS and SPSS Users.2
Python is used in a wide range of computing applications ...
