Why The R Programming Language Is Good For Business Thanks to one company, the same code that is revolutionizing the scientific community is now moving up the ranks of the business world.

Interest in the open source R language keeps rising, making it the candidate for TIOBE's programming language of the year.

As part of our mini-series on programming languages, James Fransham makes the case for R being the best language for data journalism and our team shares their tips for getting started with it.