Big Data with Elixir

[ejc123]

@asierguti

A lot of people use python, R or mathematica for data mining. The only reason why they do that is because they have libraries which implement most of the stuff, from clustering to neural networks. You just create a small script, and you can play around with models. This is very good for uncovering data patterns and models. Now, if you want to apply those models on large data sets and near real time, you will have to move them to C or C++.

I’ve worked with R a bit and most of the commonly used data mining libraries have the computationally intensive parts written in C. This is also a reason for going with R. Personally, I can’t get R to sink into my skull – I can never remember which syntax to use for anything.