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Yes, I found the Data Analysis cookbook very helpful as well. However, it really drove home to me the need for a dataframe/Pandas-like library in Haskell... Abo

Yes, I found the Data Analysis cookbook very helpful as well. However, it really drove home to me the need for a dataframe/Pandas-like library in Haskell... About half the code in every one of his examples was reading a CSV file, parsing it into some ad-hoc data structure etc. For very robust production apps, that can be justifiable, but for just a quick look at some data, it should just be a one-liner...

coolsunglasses 12y ago
Carter is working on a numerical stack for Haskell that should make writing a pandas-esque library in Haskell pretty easy. He can be found at https://twitter.com/cartazio https://twitter.com/cartazio and in the #numerical-haskell Freenode IRC channel.
- coolsunglasses 12y ago
  https://github.com/sdiehl/frame https://github.com/sdiehl/frame and https://github.com/ekmett/tables https://github.com/ekmett/tables came up in IRC as well.
- carterschonwald 12y ago
  of course that ignoring the fact that I kinda think people say "pandas" as a proxy for "i want a decent multi dimensional aggregation db thats a library for my language"... kinda thing. People say "data frame" but can mean a HUGE range of actual workloads
tel 12y ago
This rings very true to my use as well. I'd like to see something like Vinyl specialized to data frames, but nobody has built it yet. Edit: see the post by coolsunglasses below—Carter's work is certainly the furthest along in this direction that I'm aware of.
- carterschonwald 12y ago
  And wrt syntx sugar for hlists and vinyl, there's some somestuff I hope to get into the merge window for ghc this week that might make that much nicer to work with. I hope.
  - tel 12y ago
    Yay!
    - carterschonwald 12y ago
      well,try out the hcons/hnil stuff in https://github.com/cartazio/HetList/blob/master/HetList.hs https://github.com/cartazio/HetList/blob/master/HetList.hs and give me feedback asap so I can somehow wing getting it under consideration later this week. merge window for big stuff is FRIDAY

coolsunglasses 12y ago

Carter is working on a numerical stack for Haskell that should make writing a pandas-esque library in Haskell pretty easy. He can be found at https://twitter.com/cartazio https://twitter.com/cartazio and in the #numerical-haskell Freenode IRC channel.

coolsunglasses 12y ago
https://github.com/sdiehl/frame https://github.com/sdiehl/frame and https://github.com/ekmett/tables https://github.com/ekmett/tables came up in IRC as well.
carterschonwald 12y ago
of course that ignoring the fact that I kinda think people say "pandas" as a proxy for "i want a decent multi dimensional aggregation db thats a library for my language"... kinda thing. People say "data frame" but can mean a HUGE range of actual workloads

tel 12y ago

This rings very true to my use as well. I'd like to see something like Vinyl specialized to data frames, but nobody has built it yet. Edit: see the post by coolsunglasses below—Carter's work is certainly the furthest along in this direction that I'm aware of.

carterschonwald 12y ago
And wrt syntx sugar for hlists and vinyl, there's some somestuff I hope to get into the merge window for ghc this week that might make that much nicer to work with. I hope.
- tel 12y ago
  Yay!
  - carterschonwald 12y ago
    well,try out the hcons/hnil stuff in https://github.com/cartazio/HetList/blob/master/HetList.hs https://github.com/cartazio/HetList/blob/master/HetList.hs and give me feedback asap so I can somehow wing getting it under consideration later this week. merge window for big stuff is FRIDAY