The most widely used programming languages for economic research are Julia, Matlab, Python and R. This column uses three criteria to compare the languages: the power of available libraries, the speed and possibilities when handling large datasets, and the... (more…)

Last time I have posted about the take-aways for DataFrames.jl from JuliaCon 2020. This time I wanted to share my general conclusions from attending different talks at this extremely successful event. (more…)

Julia Computing was founded with a mission to make Julia easy to use, easy to deploy and easy to scale. We operate out of Boston, London and Bangalore and we serve customers worldwide. (more…)

The Julia community is thrilled to announce the release of version 0.6.0 of the Julia language. With a sweeping overhaul of the type system and numerous improvements to syntax and to the standard library, 0.6.0 is the most transformative release yet. A co... (more…)

Earlier today, several users started seeing issues installing packages. This post seeks to collect all the information related to this incident. Impact The issue caused installation of incorrect versions (latest master when a prior version was requested)... (more…)