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Re:Try Clojure in your browser by kghose on Sunday December 18, 2011 @08:09AM (#3366564)

I found it fun to see division results returned as fractions. Has anyone here switched from Python to Clojure for data analysis? What has been their experience?

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Re:Try Clojure in your browser by spacemanaki on Sunday December 18, 2011 @10:03AM (#3366716)

I haven't used it, but Incanter is a Clojure statistics and data analysis thing... http://incanter.org/

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Re:Try Clojure in your browser by tomjen3 on Sunday December 18, 2011 @10:17AM (#3366740)

That is because Lisp has fractions as a native datatype. You would get the same result in Common Lisp.

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Re:Try Clojure in your browser by gukjoon on Sunday December 18, 2011 @10:46AM (#3366789)

Not recommended. Matrix multiplication is really slow, even with Incanter. I doubt you'll get very far with data analysis without multiplying a few matrices so avoid.

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Re:Try Clojure in your browser by rabidsnail on Sunday December 18, 2011 @02:41PM (#3367308)

Slow compared to what? Numpy (or equivalent) or optimized fortran?

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Re:Try Clojure in your browser by gukjoon on Sunday December 18, 2011 @04:26PM (#3367522)

You know what? I realized that I didn't read the whole question. I switched from Octave, not Python. Oops.

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Re:Try Clojure in your browser by tel on Sunday December 18, 2011 @08:04PM (#3368029)

I'm in the process right now. I didn't want to use Incanter since I don't like the kitchen sink reinvent R style, but there aren't any Clojure-esque matrix libraries around.

You, flatly, gain the language advantages of Clojure but have absolutely none of the Numpy/Matlab/R-like environments.

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