John Mount does a fun analysis:
This is a graph of the percentage of Stack Overflow questions tagged with data science terms such as R, Pandas, and so on. It seems to show exploding interest in R and Pandas, and maybe even Tensorflow. Pandas was likely chosen as a proxy for interest in Python for data science (versus a general interest in Python). I’d prefer view counts over question percentages as a proxy of interest, but it is what it is.
Then I thought, let’s see if they have newer data. They do, and it is horrifying (though not unexpected to those of us in the industry).
Click through for the analysis, as well as an important note in the comments.