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polars
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Why Python's Integer Division Floors (2010)
This is because 0.1 is in actuality the floating point value value 0.1000000000000000055511151231257827021181583404541015625, and thus 1 divided by it is ever so slightly smaller than 10. Nevertheless, fpround(1 / fpround(1 / 10)) = 10 exactly.
I found out about this recently because in Polars I defined a // b for floats to be (a / b).floor(), which does return 10 for this computation. Since Python's correctly-rounded division is rather expensive, I chose to stick to this (more context: https://github.com/pola-rs/polars/issues/14596#issuecomment-...).
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Polars
https://github.com/pola-rs/polars/releases/tag/py-0.19.0
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Stuff I Learned during Hanukkah of Data 2023
That turned out to be related to pola-rs/polars#11912, and this linked comment provided a deceptively simple solution - use PARSE_DECLTYPES when creating the connection:
- Polars 0.20 Released
- Segunda linguagem
- Polars: Dataframes powered by a multithreaded query engine, written in Rust
- Summing columns in remote Parquet files using DuckDB
- Polars 0.34 is released. (A query engine focussing on DataFrame front ends)
explorer
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Polars
The Explorer library [0] in Elixir uses Polars underneath it.
[0] https://github.com/elixir-explorer/explorer
- Unpacking Elixir: Concurrency
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Elixir Livebook is a secret weapon for documentation
To ensure you do not miss this: LiveBook comes with a Vega Lite integration (https://livebook.dev/integrations -> https://livebook.dev/integrations/vega-lite/), which means you get access to a lot of visualisations out of the box, should you need that (https://vega.github.io/vega-lite/).
In the same "standing on giant's shoulders" stance, you can use Explorer (see example LiveBook at https://github.com/elixir-explorer/explorer/blob/main/notebo...), which leverages Polars (https://www.pola.rs), a very fast DataFrame library and now a company (https://www.pola.rs/posts/company-announcement/) with 4M$ seed.
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Does anyone else hate Pandas?
Already exists. Check out https://github.com/elixir-nx/explorer which provides a tidyverse-like API in Elixir using polars as the back end.
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Data wrangling in Elixir with Explorer, the power of Rust, the elegance of R
José from the Livebook team. I don't think I can make a pitch because I have limited Python/R experience to use as reference.
My suggestion is for you to give it a try for a day or two and see what you think. I am pretty sure you will find weak spots and I would be very happy to hear any feedback you may have. You can find my email on my GitHub profile (same username).
In general we have grown a lot since the Numerical Elixir effort started two years ago. Here are the main building blocks:
* Nx (https://github.com/elixir-nx/nx/tree/main/nx#readme): equivalent to Numpy, deeply inspired by JAX. Runs on both CPU and GPU via Google XLA (also used by JAX/Tensorflow) and supports tensor serving out of the box
* Axon (https://github.com/elixir-nx/axon): Nx-powered neural networks
* Bumblebee (https://github.com/elixir-nx/bumblebee): Equivalent to HuggingFace Transformers. We have implemented several models and that's what powers the Machine Learning integration in Livebook (see the announcement for more info: https://news.livebook.dev/announcing-bumblebee-gpt2-stable-d...)
* Explorer (https://github.com/elixir-nx/explorer): Series and DataFrames, as per this thread.
* Scholar (https://github.com/elixir-nx/scholar): Nx-based traditional Machine Learning. This one is the most recent effort of them all. We are treading the same path as scikit-learn but quite early on. However, because we are built on Nx, everything is derivable, GPU-ready, distributable, etc.
Regarding visualization, we have "smart cells" for VegaLite and MapLibre, similar to how we did "Data Transformations" in the video above. They help you get started with your visualizations and you can jump deep into the code if necessary.
I hope this helps!
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Would you still choose Elixir/Phoenix/LiveView if scaling and performance weren’t an issue to solve for?
There's a package in the Nx ecosystem called Explorer (https://github.com/elixir-nx/explorer). It uses bindings for the rust library, polars, which is much more betterer than Pandas.
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Updated Erlport alternative ?
FWIW around April this year I started using erlport with python polars in a production ETL app because explorer didn't have the features I needed at the time.
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ElixirConf 2022 - That's a wrap!
Machine learning is rapidly expanding within the Elixir ecosystem, with tools such as Nx, Axon, and Explorer being used both by individuals and companies such as Amplified, as mentioned above.
- Dataframes but for Elixir
- Quick candlestick summaries with Elixir's Explorer
What are some alternatives?
vaex - Out-of-Core hybrid Apache Arrow/NumPy DataFrame for Python, ML, visualization and exploration of big tabular data at a billion rows per second 🚀
dplyr - dplyr: A grammar of data manipulation
modin - Modin: Scale your Pandas workflows by changing a single line of code
axon - Nx-powered Neural Networks
arrow-datafusion - Apache DataFusion SQL Query Engine
db-benchmark - reproducible benchmark of database-like ops
DataFrames.jl - In-memory tabular data in Julia
arrow2 - Transmute-free Rust library to work with the Arrow format
datatable - A Python package for manipulating 2-dimensional tabular data structures
wasmex - Execute WebAssembly from Elixir
Apache Arrow - Apache Arrow is a multi-language toolbox for accelerated data interchange and in-memory processing