Re:Python for Data Analysis (new O'Reilly book from creator ...
by carterschonwald on Friday May 25, 2012 @06:55PM
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and on the DataFrame front, look to https://github.com/cartazio/HasCol in a few days - week for a prealpha/alpha look at what shall be the kernel of the haskell story for doing a nice data frame. :)
There's a few other projects that aren't quite public yet going on that should make it possible to do some of the standard things you might want like a nice staticly typed fast data frame (which is going to look at pandas as an initial role model) and some other parts of the data analysis flow.