[j13n]

It’s great to see reports of the excellent work Daniel Slutsky and others are doing to make data science more straightforward for everyone.

I'm grateful that I get to benefit from these community efforts.

[bmitc]

Good luck getting academics to adopt anything they don't know about, and all they know about is Python.

[bachmeier]

This is a strange comment that probably reflects the sliver of academics you're familiar with. Who do you think wrote and continues to develop R and all those packages? There are actually many types of software in use by academics.

[sokoloff]

Academics is much older than Python. At some point, they adopted that.

[kmclean]

There are actually a surprising number of academics in the Clojure for data science study groups. A lot of them ran into performance or portability issues with Python or R and found Clojure tools as a good solution.