An overview of what you can and cannot expect from Julia performance. A guide to the fence sitters pondering whether to use Julia for high…

I wrote a Julia package (Shrike.jl) for approximate nearest neighbor search. My algorithm draws heavily on the mrpt algorithm and uses the same principles behind annoy (a popular approximate nearest neighbor package by Spotify). My Julia implementation be…

Since Julia has a younger ecosystem, you won’t always find the functionality you need for every task.  In those cases, you’re left with the choice to either: Implement it yourself. This is great for the Julia community in the long run (especially if you …

Since Julia has a younger ecosystem, you won’t always find the functionality you need for every task.  In those cases, you’re left with the choice to either: Implement it yourself. This is great for the Julia community in the long run (especially if you …

Julia is a fairly modern scientific programming language that is free, high-level, fast, and bundles a bunch of awesome features that makes Julia working with data great again. Amazon Athena is an interactive query service which allows you to easily analy…

The Julia Language Docs have a great page on performance tips.  It’s worth a read, but the writing is aimed more towards a computer scientist than a data scientist. Here we’ll cover some easy performance wins. We find the best way to code in Julia is to:…

I’ve been more serious about learning Rust recently, after dragging on with passive learning for a while. My first real programming language was Julia, and I know other Julians interested in Rust. I’ve written this article for those people in mind, becaus…

I’ve been more serious about learning Rust recently, after dragging on with passive learning for a while. My first real programming language was Julia, and I know other Julians interested in Rust. I’ve written this article for those people in mind, becaus…

Big data is an overloaded term.  Here at Julia For Data Science, we’ll loosely define it as: Big data is any dataset (or collection of datasets) that requires you to change how you analyze it because of its size.For example, I am writing this post on a la…