On DataFrame datatype in Ruby
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 poin...
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