Regional Participation

The participation by region was:

• Europe, 37.5%
• US/Canada, 36.6%
• Asia, 11.7%
• Latin America, 6.6%
• Africa/Middle East, 4.5%
• Australia/NZ, 3.1%

Compared to 2017, the main change is a higher participation from Europe (up from 35.5%), and lower from US/Canada (down from 41.5%).

Full Results and 3-year trends

The following table shows the poll results in detail

KDnuggets 2018 Poll: What Analytics, Big Data, Data Science, Machine Learning software you used in the past 12 months for a real project?
Tool (number of voters in 2018)	% voters in 2018 % voters in 2017 % voters in 2016
Python (1347)	65.6% 59.0% 52.0%
RapidMiner (1081)	52.7% 31.9% 32.7%
R (996)	48.5% 56.6% 54.9%
SQL (813)	39.6% 39.2% 40.4%
Excel (803)	39.1% 31.5% 38.1%
Anaconda (686)	33.4% 24.3% 18.1%
Tensorflow (614)	29.9% 22.7% 7.8%
Tableau (542)	26.4% 21.8% 21.0%
scikit-learn (500)	24.4% 21.9% 19.5%
Keras (456)	22.2% 10.7% na
Apache Spark (442)	21.5% 25.5% 24.5%
Java (309)	15.1% 15.5% 19.1%
Microsoft SQL Server (283)	13.8% 13.0% 12.3%
PyCharm (276)	13.5% 10.1% na
Microsoft Power BI (257)	12.5% 11.5% 6.3%
KNIME (252)	12.3% 21.0% 19.6%
Spark SQL (240)	11.7% na na
Weka (233)	11.4% 10.8% 12.3%
Hadoop: Open Source Tools (225)	11.0% 16.8% 25.2%
SQL on Hadoop tools (209)	10.2% 11.6% 8.3%
MATLAB (191)	9.3% 8.3% 10.3%
Unix shell/awk/gawk (188)	9.2% 10.8% 11.8%
Other free analytics/data mining tools (170)	8.3% 5.4% 7.8%
IBM SPSS Statistics (164)	8.0% 7.6% 9.5%
Other programming and data languages (142)	6.9% 7.6% 7.7%
C/C++ (140)	6.8% 7.1% 8.2%
PyTorch (132)	6.4% 3.4% na
Dataiku (130)	6.3% 8.0% 7.3%
H2O.ai (126)	6.1% 6.9% 7.2%
Scala (121)	5.9% 8.3% 7.1%
Hadoop: Commercial Tools (116)	5.7% 8.5% na
Microsoft Azure Machine Learning (113)	5.5% 7.2% 5.8%
SAS Base (112)	5.5% 7.7% 8.8%
IBM SPSS Modeler (100)	4.9% 6.9% 8.6%
Theano (100)	4.9% 6.5% 5.8%
Other Deep Learning Tools (100)	4.9% 5.4% 4.2%
SAS Enterprise Miner (89)	4.3% 6.2% 6.3%
QlikView (89)	4.3% 4.7% 6.0%
Orange (85)	4.1% 4.2% 3.5%
Alteryx (83)	4.0% 5.7% 3.3%
MLlib (77)	3.8% 5.1% 13.2%
DeepLearning4J (69)	3.4% 2.4% 1.9%
Amazon Machine Learning (67)	3.3% 1.9% 2.2%
IBM Watson / Watson Analytics (64)	3.1% 4.8% 4.7%
TIBCO Spotfire (63)	3.1% 2.8% 3.0%
Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (Prev. CNTK) (62)	3.0% 3.7% 1.0%
Other paid analytics/data mining/data science software (50)	2.4% 2.5% 2.8%
Gnu Octave (44)	2.1% 2.7% 3.5%
Teradata (44)	2.1% 2.7% na
Microsoft Machine Learning Server (former R Server) (43)	2.1% 4.9% na
Rattle (41)	2.0% 2.9% 4.0%
Minitab/Salford Systems (36)	1.8% 2.1% 1.5%
JMP (35)	1.7% 2.1% 2.2%
MicroStrategy (35)	1.7% 1.2% 1.8%
Pentaho (33)	1.6% 2.0% 2.6%
Mathematica (32)	1.6% 1.6% 2.1%
Apache MXnet (31)	1.5% 2.0% 0.7%
Stata (31)	1.5% 1.3% 1.5%
Caffe (30)	1.5% 3.5% 2.7%
IBM Cognos (30)	1.5% 2.4% 2.5%
IBM Data Science Experience (29)	1.4% 3.2% na
SAP Analytics/Predictive Analytics (28)	1.4% 1.1% 1.6%
Microsoft other ML/Data Science tools (27)	1.3% 2.5% 1.8%
SAP HANA (27)	1.3% 1.3% 1.4%
Solver (former XLMiner) (27)	1.3% 0.7% 1.3%
DataRobot (26)	1.3% 1.9% 0.5%
TIBCO Statistica (26)	1.3% 0.5% 1.3%
Databricks Unified Analytics Platform (25)	1.2% na na
Caffe2 (24)	1.2% na na
TFLearn (23)	1.1% na na
Perl (21)	1.0% 1.9% 2.6%
Oracle Advanced Analytics (21)	1.0% 1.8% 1.2%
C4.5/C5.0/See5 (20)	1.0% 1.4% 2.3%
Torch (20)	1.0% 1.3% 1.2%
BigML (18)	0.9% 1.1% 0.8%
Julia (14)	0.7% 1.2% 1.3%
DataScience.com (12)	0.6% 1.4% na
BayesiaLab (12)	0.6% 0.4% 0.7%
Vowpal Wabbit (9)	0.4% 1.2% 1.8%
Lasagne (7)	0.3% 1.1% na
RapidInsight/Veera (7)	0.3% 0.3% 1.6%
Angoss/Datawatch (6)	0.3% 0.7% 0.1%
Lisp (6)	0.3% 0.4% 0.3%
Clojure (4)	0.2% 0.3% 0.4%
Domino Data Labs (3)	0.1% 0.6% na
F# (3)	0.1% 0.5% 0.4%
Ontotext GraphDB (3)	0.1% 0.2% 0.2%

Here are the results of the previous KDnuggets Polls on Analytics, Data Mining, Data Science Software:

• New Leader, Trends, and Surprises in Analytics, Data Science, Machine Learning Software Poll, 2017
• R, Python Duel As Top Analytics, Data Science software, 2016
• R leads RapidMiner, Python catches up, Big Data tools grow, Spark ignites, 2015
• RapidMiner Continues To Lead, 2014
• RapidMiner and R vie for first place, 2013
• KDnuggets 2012 Poll: Analytics, Data mining, Big Data software used
• KDnuggets 2011 Poll: Data Mining/Analytic Tools Used
• KDnuggets 2010 Poll: Data Mining / Analytic Tools Used
• KDnuggets 2009 Poll: Data Mining Tools Used
• KDnuggets 2008 Poll: Data Mining Software Used
• KDnuggets 2007 Poll: Data Mining/Analytics Software Tools

Comments
Jean-Francois Puget,@JFPuget:
I am a bit disappointed that latest@kdnuggets poll does not include anyway to indicate use of XGBoost or other gradient boosted machines. This is missing a real trend in #MachineLearning.

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Naveen Goud Bobburi,
RStudio is also not in the list which i use daily