Similar story for me. I am an Engineer (the non software type). I work at an industrial plant. We use SAS pretty extensively for data analysis, time series analysis, multivariate regressions etc. As well as for BI type stuff (reports, graphing, adhoc queries).
For a while R was being pushed pretty heavily as a SAS alternative. My org paid R training courses etc. I found R and SAS pretty comparable at least the R packages we looked at (dpylr, ggplot2 etc).
I know about Python, the programming language I used PyGTK back in the day to build GUI apps. But it would not be my first thought for doing data analysis work. Does Python even offer something like R studio/ SAS Enterprise Guide and does it have a trending package?
For a while R was being pushed pretty heavily as a SAS alternative. My org paid R training courses etc. I found R and SAS pretty comparable at least the R packages we looked at (dpylr, ggplot2 etc).
I know about Python, the programming language I used PyGTK back in the day to build GUI apps. But it would not be my first thought for doing data analysis work. Does Python even offer something like R studio/ SAS Enterprise Guide and does it have a trending package?