Item: Posit
Rating: 10
Author: Jim Gruman

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use RStudio for analytics, data science, reporting, and statistical modeling for business clients in all enterprise functional groups. The system is extensible to a wide array of use cases, including quality, machine reliability, finance, supply chain, marketing, and business intelligence. RStudio connects to our Azure and on-premise data assets.

Pros and Cons

Data visualization
Big data
Statistical modeling
R
Python
Web sites

Databricks
Azure DevOps

Return on Investment

Data mining to discover customer needs
Modeling causal inference
Making predictions

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft Visual Studio Code

Rstudio is easier to set up and customize for statistical work.

Key Insights

Do you think Posit delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Posit's feature set?

Yes

Did Posit live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Posit go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Posit again?

Yes

Other Software Used

Databricks Lakehouse Platform (Unified Analytics Platform), Azure Data Science Virtual Machines (DSVM)

Likelihood to Recommend

RStudio is the premier statistical workbench and development environment for professionals. It is well suited for serious data science and statistical analysis on local compute hardware and in the cloud. RStudio is not a graphical toy.

Everyday Statistical Workbench

Overall Satisfaction with RStudio