On DataFrame datatype in Ruby
Jan 10, 2016
TL;DR: We need DataFrame as a data structure in Ruby. There are several
promising candidates but no one with good usability. Some considerations
on requirements to
good DataFrame library are proposed, alongside with
some rants on using Ruby for science.
Intro: what is DataFrame and why we should has itz?
As programming languages evolve, our notion of “basic necessary” data
types for high-level language also evolves. So, nowadays in modern languages
we have different kinds of numbers for different tasks; we have arrays
(which are not “just pointers to memory area”); we have strings (which are