Microsoft are developing an open-source distributed analytics platform---codename "Prajna". It's apparently inspired by Spark, but will also make it easy for developers to deploy cloud servies that exploit the processing capabilities of the platform. It's written in F# and the project is hosted on GitHub. … [Read more...]
F# for Scala Developers
Scala has gained prominence in the data science community due to the rapid growth of Spark. Functional languages are well-suited to data science work so, if you find Scala productive, you might be interested in looking at F#. There's a project devoted to promoting F# as an effective data science language---FsLab. Those with Scala experience who wish to dip a toe into the F# waters should have a … [Read more...]