If you are ready to stretch your mind and have time and energy to learn a new skill, I recommend this as "data science" language: APL Background: I first gaine

If you are ready to stretch your mind and have time and energy to learn a new skill, I recommend this as "data science" language: APL Background: I first gained some experience with J, where I first learned to appreciate the advantages of array languages. The main advantage is actually having your own way of thinking about processing multidimensional data. Now, recently, I've gotten into the notation of APL, and it's really even cooler than the ASCII "noise" of J. The symbols make it easier for me to both write and read programs. Admittedly, for more complex operations with data it takes a lot of learning that you usually don't have. But for simple transformation APL is already quite fast usable and convinces beyond the "mainstream".