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Darren Wilkinson
Personal blog · darrenjw.wordpress.comprogrammingdatascience
Darren Wilkinson's personal blog at darrenjw.wordpress.com covers programming, data and science. Since 2013, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for posts on using Scala as a platform for data science. The one comment cites its 2013 post as a source for Scala's traction in that field.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Statistics, computing, functional programming, data science, Bayes, stochastic modelling, systems biology and bioinformatics
What Hacker News says?
I don't personally use it for that purpose, but Scala has some traction in data science. E.g. from a quick Google search: [1] https://darrenjw.wordpress.com/2013/12/23/scala-as-a-platfor... [2] https://www.quora.com/Is-learning-Scala-useful-to-a-data-sci... [3] https://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view/advanced-anal...
Comment linking /2013/12/23/scala-as-a-platform-for-statistical-computing-and-data-science/
on “Ask HN: Strong typed language for data analysis?”Submitted Parallel Monte Carlo using Scala as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Scala as a platform for statistical computing and data science as a story · 4 points
HN discussion