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Big data is driving the use of statistical programming languages, in particular the open source R language.

This month's edition of the Tiobe index, which assesses language popularity based on data from search engines, has the R language ranked 15th, after being 12th last month and 31st a year ago. "Thanks to the big data hype, computational statistics is gaining attention nowadays," Tiobe says in its assessment.

"Yes, R is gaining share for a while now," Tiobe Managing Director Paul Jansen said in an email. "Please note that it is only 1.5 percent now, so it is still not 'a lot of share.' R is a language that is designed to process a lot of data and visualize the results in an easy way. It has also a lot of statistical features availability to make analysis of big data easy."

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