Awk is awesome and Dr. Kernighan has taught me so much.

If you like exploratory data analysis using awk, you may like the "num" command:

https://github.com/numcommand/num

Num uses awk for command line statistics, such as standard deviation, kurtosis, quartiles, uniqueness, ordering, and more. Num runs on a very wide range of Unix systems, such as systems without package managers.

Feature requests and PRs are welcome.