python-r-sql

I've used both python and R for data analysis and to be honest I don't feel that strongly about the inherent superiority of one or the other. The dominance of the tidyverse in R chafes a bit but one can take refuge in base R or the excellent data.table package. The idiosyncracies and awkwardness of pandas ought to negate python programmers' feeling of superiority. These days I try as much as possible to do things in SQL (within python), more specifically the duckdb dialect, which has its own particular functions on which I perhaps rely too much.