The author is a scientist analyzing his data. I never met anyone in that crowd using C#. Are there even any good data science/numerics libs out there? C++ has a lot of number crunching libs, python even more.
https://www.roguewave.com/products-services/imsl-numerical-l...
.NET is used a lot for data analysis in life sciences, as most laboratory devices only expose COM and .dll interfaces.
Specially for stuff like DNA sequencing, chemical structure manipulation, reaction curves analysis and such.