Hi Bo, I've lightly followed previous discussions of these ideas before on the forum. Have you had a go at modelling them in J? Maybe being able to use them in practice will help others understand what you clearly believe is something of value? Thanks,
On Mon, Feb 14, 2022 at 4:21 AM 'Bo Jacoby' via Programming < programm...@jsoftware.com> wrote: > Ric wrote: "I thought I'd share in case anyone has any thoughts, > suggestions or wants to help take the idea further." > > This link has thoughts and suggestions. > > https://www.academia.edu/10031088/ORDINAL_FRACTIONS_the_algebra_of_data > > Thanks! > > Bo. > > Den søndag den 13. februar 2022 14.49.06 CET skrev Ric Sherlock < > tikk...@gmail.com>: > > > > > > Inspired by recent threads, I've started experimenting with a DataFrame > structure in J. > I began by building off the 'general/misc/inverted' utilities so that a > DataFrame is just a 2-row table, where the first row is a list of labels & > the 2nd is an inverted table. > > It can be installed as 'tables/dataframe' from the following github > repository: https://github.com/tikkanz/jdataframe > > The JArrow bindings that Aaron pointed me at a while back represent a > similar data structure as a 2-column table where the labels are in the > first column and the "columns" are rows in the 2nd column. > (https://github.com/tikkanz/JArrow) > I think I need to play with both for a while to see which works better. > > Obviously there is a lot more to do, but I thought I'd share in case anyone > has any thoughts, suggestions or wants to help take the idea further. > Ric > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
