I would be awesome if you could provide links to some of the books, YouTube videos, and clojure wrappers that you'd recommend.
On Thursday, April 2, 2015, A <aael...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Clojure is an Amazing tool for data science. If people are slow to > realize this, that is their disadvantage. > > The premise that "Clojure hasn't developed as a go to for data science" > simply doesn't ring true to me at all. There are numerous examples of > Clojure use for data science, there are books about it, there are youtube > videos about it, there are practitioners, there is Incanter, there are > Transducers, there are Notebooks (Gorilla is awesome), there are Java > libraries, there are wrapper Clojure libraries, there are a lot of useful > tools. > > Clojure is my "go to for data science" and I often use it either directly, > or to manage runs using fast tools (like vw), or to prepare SQL-izations of > data etc... (Btw, your SQL often runs as easily in > Postgres/Redshift/Hive/Spark with minimal changes if any if you need to > scale etc... If you treat your SQL the way you treat HTML, let your customs > functions write it, you get a lot of analytic power that is not tied to any > particular database). There is Clojurescript for visualization... There is > so much that I am certain I am forgetting to mention some of it. > > Also, Big +1 for emacs use (cider is awesome! I rarely want to touch a > mouse... ) > > Thanks for an amazing, innovative Emacs and Clojure commuity!! > > -Avram > > The sky is the limit. > > > > > > > > On Sunday, March 29, 2015 at 2:55:34 AM UTC-7, Sayth Renshaw wrote: >> >> Hi >> >> I last learned clojure in 1.2. Just curious why Clojure hasn't developed >> as a go to for data science? >> >> It never seems to get a mention R,Python and now Julia get the attention. >> By design it would appear that Clojure would be a good fit. Is it a lack of >> libraries, ease of install, no good default environment (R Rstudio, >> IPython ) where as you would need to use emacs with clojure, or is there >> just a better default use of Clojure? >> >> Sayth > > -- > 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 > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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 > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','clojure%2bunsubscr...@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 > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','clojure%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com');>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- Rafael de F. Ferreira. http://www.rafaelferreira.net/ -- 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.
