After a lengthy design process and preliminary foundations in Julia 0.5, Julia 0.6 includes new facilities for writing code in the “vectorized”
style (familiar from Matlab, Numpy, R, etcetera) while avoiding the
overhead that this style of programming...
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This is Julia version 1.6.0, the sixth minor release in the 1.x series of releases. (more…)
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Researchers often need to create complex visualizations, that go far beyond a single axis or a simple subplot grid. This is especially true for graphics meant for publication, which are held to a higher aesthetic standard. Still, most commonly used plotti... (more…)
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Put This In Your Pipe | In a [previous post](/blog/2012/03/shelling-out-sucks/), I talked about why (more…)
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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…)
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