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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

3.7 (6)
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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Performing fast comparisons between data types


The StableName package allows us to establish constant time comparisons of arbitrary data types. The Hackage documentation elegantly describes this (http://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-4.7.0.0/docs/System-Mem-StableName.html):

"Stable names solve the following problem: suppose you want to build a hash table with Haskell objects as keys, but you want to use pointer equality for comparison; maybe because the keys are large and hashing would be slow, or perhaps because the keys are infinite in size. We can't build a hash table using the address of the object as the key, because objects get moved around by the garbage collector, meaning a re-hash would be necessary after every garbage collection."

How to do it…

  1. Import the built-in StableName package as follows:

    import System.Mem.StableName
  2. Create a custom data type as follows:

    data Point = Point [Int]
  3. In main, define two points as follows:

      main = do
        let p1 = Point [1..]
        let p2 = Point [2,4...
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