2021 Trends in Data Science

2021 Trends in Data Science

Zepl
4 min readDec 11, 2020

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How to leverage these trends in your business or career

January 18, 2021

As we welcome in 2021, we wanted to share with you what’s around the corner in data science.

Explosion of Python Projects

The first trend we’re seeing in the data science world is an explosion of Python projects. Python is now the most popular searched for term on Stack Overflow.

Data scientists are embracing Python with good reason. There are a huge number of Python data science libraries that are open source and easy to use, like Scikit-learn, Pandas and Tensorflow. In addition, Python is easy to learn. When compared to other data science languages like R, Python promotes a shorter learning curve by promoting an easy-to-understand syntax.

Collaboration Across Your Company

The second trend that we see and hear about a lot at Zepl is around collaboration. As data is collected throughout an organization — sales, marketing, IT, security, product — it’s important to give all stakeholders access to this data so they can gain insights from it. As data scientists model…

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