Scripting (and other) languages are great resources for getting data from one format to another, or for performing operations on data that has already been massaged. Data science refers to data gathering, data munging, and performing operations to produce a result; data analytics is less mathematically oriented and refers to simple aggregation or performing individual operations on the data.
Some programming paradigms, like functional programming, are used for these kinds of tasks. Thanks to its multi-paradigm nature and its extensive set of native functions, Raku is uniquely suited to these ...
