[rstuart4133]

Amen.

I'm guessing regex's are beyond Data Scientist [0], but throw sed and vim into the mix and there are very few one off problems that can be managed by a single CPU that you can't do, and what's more do more efficiently than any other tool chain. The overhead of throwing it into a SQL database or whatever is do big, these simple tools simply blow them away is you are doing it just once.

[0] I'm guessing a "Data Scientist" is someone who knows a lot about the data and the scientific domain that created it, and to whom a computer is just a just another hammer you hit the data with. A hammer that someone deliberately made insanely and unnecessarily complex for job security, or something.