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"K is a general-purpose programming language that excels as a tool for data wrangling, analytics and transformation." How does it compare to R/tidyverse?
by blablablerg 2y ago
"K is a general-purpose programming language that excels as a tool for data wrangling, analytics and transformation."
How does it compare to R/tidyverse?
- 7thaccount 2y agoIt's mainly for quants where you couple the array language with a time series database of all your stock quotes. Once you understand the language you can do a ton of analysis with extremely little code. Think of it as a mathematical SQL dialect I guess. In my opinion, it's very cool, but Python's ecosystem (and R's) is just so much better with scientific libraries and charting and all that. Kdb+ (the database) and K the language are likely much faster than R for general analysis type stuff. R is also free and Kdb+ is not.