Today, the world is awash with lots of software tools for data analysis. The reader may wonder, why Julia for Data Analysis? This book answers both the “why” and the “how.”
Since the reader may not be familiar with me, I would like to introduce myself. I am one of the creators of the Julia language and co-founder and CEO of Julia Computing. We started the Julia language with a simple idea—build a language that is as fast as C, but as easy as R and Python. This simple idea has had an immense impact in a lot of different areas as the Julia community has built a wonderful set of abstractions and infrastructure surrounding it. Bogumił, along with many co-contributors, has built a high performance and easy-to-use package ecosystem for data analysis.