[Haskell-cafe] data analysis question

[Chris Allen]

There is #numerical-Haskell on Freenode and an NLP mailing list I believe.

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> On Nov 13, 2014, at 9:40 PM, Mark Fredrickson <mark.m.fredrickson at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Is there a mailing list for statistics/analytics/simulation/numerical
> analysis/etc. using Haskell? If not, I purpose we start one. (Not to
> take away from general discussion, but to provide a forum to hash out
> these issues among the primary user base).
> 
> -M
> 
> 
>> On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 12:46 PM, Tobias Pflug <tobias.pflug at gmx.net> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Big enough machine with enough memory and it's fine. I used to keep a job
>> queue with a billion rows on MySQL at a gig long ago. Could do it with
>> PostgreSQL pretty easily too. On your personal work machine? I dunno.
>> 
>> Not trying to steer you away from using Haskell here by any means, but if
>> you can process your data in a SQL database efficiently, that's often pretty
>> optimal in terms of speed and ease of use until you start doing more
>> sophisticated analysis. I don't have a lot of experience in data analysis
>> but I knew people to do some preliminary slicing/dicing in SQL before moving
>> onto a building a custom model for understanding the data.
>> 
>> 
>> I guess I was just curious what a sensible approach using Haskell would look
>> like and i'll play
>> around with what I know now. If this was from my working place i'd just put
>> it in a database with
>> enough horse power but it's just my curiosity in my spare time, alas..
>> 
>> thank you for your input.
>> 
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