Update:

Upon investigation, the other methods besides process_data() take almost no time at all to run, by comparison.  The process_data() method takes roughly 2521 seconds to run using Multiprocessing with eight threads.  After its execution, the rest of the program only takes 120 seconds to run.  So, since I still need to restructure the code, I won't bother adding multiprocessing to these other methods yet, since it won't significantly improve speed (and any improvements might not be compatible with how I restructure the code).  For now, the code is just about as efficient as it can be (in terms of multiprocessing).  Further improvements may or may not be gained when the code is restructured.