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Clojure Data Analysis Cookbook

By : Eric Rochester
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Clojure Data Analysis Cookbook

By: Eric Rochester

Overview of this book

<p>Data is everywhere and it's increasingly important to be able to gain insights that we can act on. Using Clojure for data analysis and collection, this book will show you how to gain fresh insights and perspectives from your data with an essential collection of practical, structured recipes.<br /><br />"The Clojure Data Analysis Cookbook" presents recipes for every stage of the data analysis process. Whether scraping data off a web page, performing data mining, or creating graphs for the web, this book has something for the task at hand.<br /><br />You'll learn how to acquire data, clean it up, and transform it into useful graphs which can then be analyzed and published to the Internet. Coverage includes advanced topics like processing data concurrently, applying powerful statistical techniques like Bayesian modelling, and even data mining algorithms such as K-means clustering, neural networks, and association rules.</p>
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Clojure Data Analysis Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Calling Mathematica functions from Clojuratica


No matter what data we're working on with Mathematica, we'll want to call Mathematica functions from Clojure. The Clojuratica library makes this almost as easy as calling Clojure functions. Let's see how to do it.

Getting ready

We must first have Clojuratica and Mathematica talking to each other. Either complete the Setting up Mathematica to talk to Clojuratica for Mac OS X and Linux recipe or the Setting up Mathematica to Talk to Clojuratica for Windows recipe. Also, you must first call the init-mma function.

Also, make sure that the clojuratica namespace is imported into our script or REPL.

(use 'clojuratica)

How to do it…

To call a function, we just use Mathematica's name for it with Clojure's function-calling syntax. For this example, we'll solve a non-linear system of equations. In Mathematica, it would look like the following:

FindRoot[{Exp[x-2] == y, y^2 == x}, {{x, 1}, {y, 1}}]

In Clojure, it looks like the following:

user=> (math (FindRoot...