Is there any desire or need for a Clojure DataFrame?
By DataFrame, I mean a structure similar to R's data.frame, and Python's pandas.DataFrame. Incanter's DataSet may already be fulfilling this purpose, and if so, I'd like to know if and how people are using it. >From quickly researching, I see that some prior work has been done in this space, such as: * https://github.com/cardillo/joinery * https://github.com/mattrepl/data-frame * http://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html#dataframes Rather than going off and creating a competing implementation (https://xkcd.com/927/), I'd like to know if anyone here is actively working on, or would like to work on a DataFrame and related utilities for Clojure (and by extension Java)? Is it something that's sorely needed, or is everybody happy with using Incanter or some other library that I'm not aware of? If there's already a defacto standard out there, would anyone care to please point it out? As background information: My specific use-case is in NLP and ML, where I often explore and prototype in Python, but I'm then left to deal with a smattering of libraries on the JVM (Mallet, Weka, Mahout, ND4J, DeepLearning4j, CoreNLP, etc.), each with their own ad-hoc implementations of algorithms, matrices, and utilities for reading data. It would be great to have a unified way to explore my data in the Clojure REPL, and then serve the same code and models in production. I would love for Clojure to have a broadly compatible ecosystem similar to Python's Numpy/Pandas/Scikit-*/Scipy/matplotlib/GenSim,etc. Core.Matrix and Incanter appear to fulfill a large chunk of those roles, but I am not aware if they've yet become the defacto standards in the community. Any feedback is greatly appreciated. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
