Re: Getting Tablicious on Octave Forge

[Andrew Janke]

On 1/31/20 5:54 AM, José Abílio Matos wrote:
> On Thursday, January 30, 2020 10:22:00 PM WET Andrew Janke wrote:
>> Thanks for trying my library. Let me know if you have any issues. And
>> feel free to report bugs directly to the project page
>> athttps://github.com/apjanke/octave-tablicious/issues.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Andrew
> 
> FWIW in order to understand my motivation to work on octave is two-fold. I 
> work with other colleagues on using the Lanczos Tau methods to solve integro-
> differential equations (and related). They started the project in Matlab and 
> I 
> have expanded it making also compatible with Octave (the only one I use).
> 
> Table allows in this context a nice presentation of the results. Since I also 
> use python and pandas it would be nice to have a similar integration with 
> jupyter so that a table output it is nicely formatted in the output.

I'm afraid I don't know anything about using Octave in notebooks.
Anybody know if this is something that is supported? If it is, I'll see
if I can throw in whatever you need to support integration of tables in
to it.

> I am also part of a team that teaches Numerical Methods (and some 
> programming) 
> to Master students in Economics. After brief introduction to language the 
> next 
> module is "Data Analysis", we start by studying simple data (in csv) and 
> proceed to more complex subjects like a simple study of daily data from stock 
> exchange indices that has heterogeneous column types.

I also come from a financial background. At my day job, I build
platforms for quants working in energy trading and weather analysis,
based on Matlab. We use tables _all_ over the place there.

> Table with the io part would simplify a lot the treatment of the data. 
> Currently we use textscan, to show how to deal with real world data files. 
> The 
> main issue is that for students with a minimal background in computing that 
> approach may seem daunting at first (and the treatment of date-times presents 
> its challenges).

In that case I'll bump up the priority of getting table I/O working.
There was a recent update to the Octave io package that should make this
feasible.

Subscribe here if you'd like updates on table I/O progress:
https://github.com/apjanke/octave-tablicious/issues/49

Cheers,
Andrew