It’s been three months since I started with machine learning. Coming from web development, my first choice was Python due to familiarity. But it wasn’t optimal for data analytics — I kept shuffling across terminal, Sublime, and matplotlib. I wanted a better workflow to easily try visualizations, navigate data without much code, and keep history.

Since R is the most used language for data science, I tried it. Then I came across RStudio — awesome. It shows plots, help for R functions, data explorer, and editor within a single window.

I loved executing commands on RConsole and seeing output immediately on the plots tab, allowing quick iteration. RStudio’s function help has been the most useful feature.

R is definitely the way to go for my machine learning explorations.