Data analysis packages for Scala
By data analysis packages, we mean software designed for analyzing data in some way. A simple statistical regression would be an example. Software implementing machine-learning algorithms would be another example.
Saddle
Saddle is Scala's answer to R and Python's pandas package. It supports reading in structured data in a variety of different formats, including CSV and HDF5. The data can be loaded into frames and then manipulated as you would in other similar software. Statistical analysis can be performed, and you can build your own statistical analysis methods on top of the data structures provided by Saddle. Saddle is examined in detail in a separate chapter dedicated to it. It can be found at the following
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