Technologies

There are many programming languages used in Data Science, including but not limited to:

R – a free programming language and software environment for statistical computing. It provides a variety of statistical and graphical techniques and is highly extensible. R is popular across research domains for developing statistical software and data analyses, and producing publication quality graphics.
Python – a free, general-purpose programming language that emphasizes efficiency and code readability. It is object-oriented and often used for web and app development.
MATLAB – computing environment and proprietary programming language used most commonly in engineering, physics and economics.
Julia – free dynamic programming language for numerical analysis and computing.
Scala – genera-purpose language combining object-oriented and functional programming. It runs on the Java platform provides language interoperability with Java.
SAS – “Statistical Analysis System,” a proprietary software suite for data analytics. It is used by researchers in many domains to munge, mine and analyze data from a variety of sources. It is particularly popular in the health sciences.

JavaScript – primarily used in visualization, dashboards, and mashups for webpages.
UNIX shell – interactive command language and a scripting language for controlling the executions of the operating system.
Regular Expressions – sequence of symbols and characters used to search for a string or pattern within a text.
SQL – Structured Query Language is used to communicate with a database and is the standard for many relational database management systems.
Pig – used with Apache Hadoop for complex data transformations.
XPath – XML Path Language is a syntax for defining parts of an XML document.