While the current bulk of my research code is written in C, I have recently become a huge fan of Python. This language has been simply amazing at making my data analysis go much more quickly. Python packages I make use of include:
- NumPy - Great general array library
- SciPy - Good Collection of general science-related python functions.
- Matplotlib - Excellent plotting library with Matlab-like syntax
- PyNetCDF - Great NumPy-compatible wrappers for NetCDF formatted files