I end up using Python. In the end it's much more powerful and less error-prone (the oops factor of spreadsheet apps is ginormous). Quality plot, graph and stat

I end up using Python. In the end it's much more powerful and less error-prone (the oops factor of spreadsheet apps is ginormous). Quality plot, graph and stat modules abound. Plus it has the advantage of being able to trivially scale in any direction, like refactoring or working on a real database (sqlite) when the dataset grows instead of shoehorning a database into a sheet, or making a module out of it, or integrating it with other random tools.