Scala for Data Science

Summary

In this chapter, we learned how to write a fully-featured web application with the Play framework. Congratulations on making it this far. Building web applications are likely to push many data scientists beyond their comfort zone, but knowing enough about the web to build basic applications will allow you to share your results in a compelling, engaging manner, as well as facilitate communications with software engineers and web developers.

This concludes our whistle stop tour of Scala libraries. Over the course of this book, we have learned how to tackle linear algebra and optimization problems efficiently using Breeze, how to insert and query data in SQL databases in a functional manner, and both how to interact with web APIs and how to ...