Do you use R and the "hadleyverse"? (Or "tidyverse" I think as he prefers?)

I'm a programmer by trade but I use R because the people who actually work with data use it, and they write good tools for it... I think there is some confusion in the programming world about this. Programmers work with data, but they don't do it nearly as much as "professionals".

Tidy data is a good intro if you're not familiar with it:

http://vita.had.co.nz/papers/tidy-data.html

And I would recommend going through other publications by Wickam, all on his site -- they are quite readable.