Python

Python has been gaining ground in the areas of analytics and statistics. While I do not (yet) know as much about it as I would like, it seems worth mentioning.

Python mothership:

• www.python.org

Here is a good Stack Exchange discussion, which also includes lists of Python resources that might be used to support statistical work.

• http://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/1595/python-as-a-statistics-workbench