Among Matlab and Python, which language is good for general statistical data analysis? What are the pros and cons, other than accessibility, for each?
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Among Matlab and Python, which language is good for general statistical data analysis? What are the pros and cons, other than accessibility, for each?
Best Answer
As a diehard Matlab user for the last 10+ years, I recommend you learn Python. Once you are sufficiently skilled in a language, when you work in a language you are learning, it will seem like you are not being productive enough, and you will fall back to using your default best language. At the very least, I would suggest you try to become equally proficient in a number of languages (I would suggest R as well).
What I like about Matlab:
What I do not like about Matlab:
median
function, which performs a sort of the data, then takes the middle value. This has been the wrong algorithm since the 70's.