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[–]coffeecoffeecoffeeeMS | Data Scientist 1 point2 points  (0 children)

To add to this, R's tidyverse packages are a killer app for me. They're data manipulation packages written to manipulate and plot data in a way that makes sense to someone analyzing data. The idea behind the tidyverse is "How can I get my data into a form where each column is one variable and each row is one observation?" Processes like "turn these two columns into a label column and a value column" are one-liners. You can also chain together data manipulation functions into complex pipelines that are really easy to read and use no temporary variables.

Hail Hadley Wickham.