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All the comments and stories posted to Hacker News that reference this book.For more practical examples like this, I highly recommend the Haskell Data Analysis Cookbook [1].After learning the basics of Haskell, having a book chock full of practical examples of things like handling CVS files, JSON, trees, graphs, machine learning, and Haskell's outstanding support for parallel computation--is a really helpful resource. The code is extremely well written; clear, concise, and readable. The author has also put the source code on GitHub for each chapter. [2]
Afterwards, to take your skills to the next level, check out Simon Marlow's Parallel and Concurrent Programming in Haskell [3]. Simon now works at Facebook, where they're using Haskell in production [4] [5].
[1] http://www.amazon.com/Haskell-Analysis-Cookbook-Nishant-Shuk...
[2] https://github.com/BinRoot/Haskell-Data-Analysis-Cookbook
[3] http://www.amazon.com/Parallel-Concurrent-Programming-Haskel...
[4] https://code.facebook.com/posts/302060973291128/open-sourcin...
[5] http://community.haskell.org/~simonmar/papers/haxl-icfp14.pd...
⬐ houshuangYes, I found the Data Analysis cookbook very helpful as well. However, it really drove home to me the need for a dataframe/Pandas-like library in Haskell... About half the code in every one of his examples was reading a CSV file, parsing it into some ad-hoc data structure etc. For very robust production apps, that can be justifiable, but for just a quick look at some data, it should just be a one-liner...⬐ telThis rings very true to my use as well. I'd like to see something like Vinyl specialized to data frames, but nobody has built it yet.Edit: see the post by coolsunglasses below—Carter's work is certainly the furthest along in this direction that I'm aware of.
⬐ carterschonwald⬐ coolsunglassesAnd wrt syntx sugar for hlists and vinyl, there's some somestuff I hope to get into the merge window for ghc this week that might make that much nicer to work with. I hope.⬐ telYay!⬐ carterschonwaldwell,try out the hcons/hnil stuff in https://github.com/cartazio/HetList/blob/master/HetList.hs and give me feedback asap so I can somehow wing getting it under consideration later this week. merge window for big stuff is FRIDAYCarter is working on a numerical stack for Haskell that should make writing a pandas-esque library in Haskell pretty easy.He can be found at https://twitter.com/cartazio and in the #numerical-haskell Freenode IRC channel.
⬐ carterschonwaldof course that ignoring the fact that I kinda think people say "pandas" as a proxy for "i want a decent multi dimensional aggregation db thats a library for my language"... kinda thing. People say "data frame" but can mean a HUGE range of actual workloads⬐ coolsunglasseshttps://github.com/sdiehl/frame and https://github.com/ekmett/tables came up in IRC as well.