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Haskell Data Analysis cookbook

Haskell Data Analysis cookbook

By : Nishant Shukla
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Haskell Data Analysis cookbook

Haskell Data Analysis cookbook

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By: Nishant Shukla

Overview of this book

Step-by-step recipes filled with practical code samples and engaging examples demonstrate Haskell in practice, and then the concepts behind the code. This book shows functional developers and analysts how to leverage their existing knowledge of Haskell specifically for high-quality data analysis. A good understanding of data sets and functional programming is assumed.
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Coping with unexpected or missing input


Data sources often contain incomplete and unexpected data. One common approach to parsing such data in Haskell is using the Maybe data type.

Imagine designing a function to find the nth element in a list of characters. A naïve implementation may have the type Int -> [Char] -> Char. However, if the function is trying to access an index out of bounds, we should try to indicate that an error has occurred.

A common way to deal with these errors is by encapsulating the output Char into a Maybe context. Having the type Int -> [Char] -> Maybe Char allows for some better error handling. The constructors for Maybe are Just a or Nothing, which will become apparent by running GHCi and testing out the following commands:

$ ghci

Prelude> :type Just 'c'
Just 'c' :: Maybe Char

Prelude> :type Nothing
Nothing :: Maybe a

We will set each field as a Maybe data type so that whenever a field cannot be parsed, it will simply be represented as Nothing....

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