It's great for basic data-analysis tasks, where you just want to slurp in a few CSV files, join them together, filter out some rows, and spit out the results.

It's great for basic data-analysis tasks, where you just want to slurp in a few CSV files, join them together, filter out some rows, and spit out the results. Sure, you can do the same in R or python, but the whole process is very quick and easy in q.