Python crowned as the language of choice of data scientists

kaggle, a popular dataset data science machine learning competition site revealed in its recent Year In Review 2016 newsletter that Python has surpassed R as the language of choice for data scientists in recent years.this trend has been continuing for a few years. Kaggle's kernel language is now overwhelming Python despite that R was still popular and fresh in 2015. Why do you think that's the case? no revelation on Kaggle yet. Could it be because of increasing popularity of machine learning and specifically deep learning? Python works so well with ML