any good library support load/write data from/to d...

# datascience

[Steven Wang]

any good library support load/write data from/to disc available? e.g. pandas has support to write feather format (I use a lot) or hdf5 file (I use a lot too), I search around for few days, seems could not find any library support that ...

[altavir]

Krangl has some operations for that.

[altavir]

As for HDF5, no, there is no appropriate reader. The only library that supports it oustide Python is NetCDF and the API is not easy. Kotlin/Java has its own nice formats like Parquet. Feather is based on Arrow, so there should be some support for it. I am interested to play arround with Arrow if you want to collaborate.

[Steven Wang]

Thanks for mention Parquet, Iooks like pandas has support for parquet format, I looked at krangl dataframe API, does not seems support Parquet http://holgerbrandl.github.io/krangl/javadoc/krangl/krangl/-data-frame/index.html
Main usage for me is produce dataframe (timeseries) save to file, then load to Python for analysis and visualization, for now, using csv file, works but bit slow ...

[altavir]

What is the size of the file? Can't you use plain CSV/tsv? Anyway, data format is an important topic, we should discuss it more, maybe start a new library for columnar data io.

[Steven Wang]

currently I am using compressed csv, 20 years minute interval stock bars, each symbol about 20M in size, and have to process 2000+ symbols, in python, load from one of those csv.gz file took 2.6+ seconds (kotlin took 800+ms), but if could be in other more efficient format will be much faster. I used to use feather format (produce/load from Python), took < 100ms in python for same amount of data to load. for my use case, I feel most needed is a good charting library, then would be nice to have an efficient data format for large dataset io.

[altavir]

Here is the example of plotly.kt usage with krangl csv loading: https://github.com/mipt-npm/plotly.kt/blob/476ca9322e1615fec281d48fd5bcc5c54a0b8620/examples/src/main/kotlin/violin/MultipleTracesViolin.kt#L18

[altavir]

Here are another example with krangl: https://github.com/mipt-npm/plotly.kt/tree/master/examples/src/main/kotlin/io

[altavir]

Also I saw some examples with kotlin-dataframe, but I am not sure where to get them.