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Can you elaborate more on the "algorithms in JS" bit? What libraries/tools are they using? Why JS versus Python or JVM languages?
by xaranke 8y ago
Can you elaborate more on the "algorithms in JS" bit? What libraries/tools are they using? Why JS versus Python or JVM languages?
- mythrwy 8y agoSeconded. "Data scientists" and "being most comfortable writing in JS" just sounds strange to me.
- telchar 8y agoI don't want to pile on but that sentence strongly reminded me of the oldish saw about "a data scientist is a programmer who lives in SF". I've never heard of anyone using JS for data science. What might it have that's anywhere comparable to the tidyverse or numpy/scipy/sklearn?
- EdwardDiego 8y agoThey don't use JS to investigate the data, they use SQL (Hive, Impala etc.) as their lingua franca for exploring datasets. But they then write their algorithms based on that analysis in JS. Again, I don't know why, it struck me as odd also, but hey, whatever they're doing, it works for them.
- EdwardDiego 8y agoI have no idea why they use JS - it's a Berlin start-up so maybe trendiness is involved? All I know is that their data engineers have to make those algorithms work in production.