You may find the "Tidy Data" paper by H. Wickham is a good introduction: http://vita.had.co.nz/papers/tidy-data.pdf
It uses R's syntax, but I think R influenced the design of the Julia libray a lot. Best, Tamas On Sat, Oct 25 2014, Daniel Carrera <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > This is a fairly naive question. I have observed for the last two years > that many people really like data frames. R users obviously like them, and > the Python and Julia communities thought it was worth adding that feature > to their languages too. However, as an astronomer, I have not yet had a > problem that would be solved by data frames. I use Julia to analyze > hydrodynamic simulations. I can imagine that data frames could have a role > in photographic data where some pixels are missing. > > Are you a scientist or engineer currently using data frames to solve a > problem? I would love to hear about what you do with data frames and why > you find them useful. > > Cheers, > Daniel.
