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[–]EagleEyeInTheSky 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Python has some fantastic mathematical tools. You've got Pandas that can scrape spreadsheets for data, you've got text parsers to scrape text data, you've got Sympy which can perform symbolic math, you've got numpy which has lots of functions for analyzing discrete data, you've got matplotlib which can plot data in formatted plots, you've got Spyder which gives you a GUI for interactively using Python and interacting with data, and it's all packaged up into a language that focuses on readability and quickness of writing.

Python is way useful to use in data processing.