New features and improvements in Deedle v1.0
As Howard Mansell already announced on the BlueMountain Tech blog, we have officially released the "1.0" version of Deedle. In case you have not heard of Deedle yet, it is a .NET library for interactive data analysis and exploration. Deedle works great with both C# and F#. It provides two main data structures: series for working with data and time series and frame for working with collections of series (think CSV files, data tables etc.)
The great thing about Deedle is that it has been becoming a foundational library that makes it possible to integrate a wide range of diverse data-science components. For example, the R type provider works well with Deedle and so does F# Charting. We've been also working on integrating all of these into a single package called FsLab, but more about that next time!
In this blog post, I'll have a quick look at a couple of new features in Deedle (and corresponding R type provider release). Howard's announcement has a more detailed list, but I just want to give a couple of examples and briefly comment on performance improvemens we did.
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