"Scientific Clojure, a bird's eye view" by Thomas Clark

Whether natural or digital, a language takes a strong community to survive. Scicloj, portmanteau pending, is both an emerging ecosystem of powerful, analytical libraries and a clojure support group for people with data. We will outline the key stacks and conventions that have matured by 2024: covering data wrangling, data science interop, maths (number-crunching, statistical and symbolic), machine learning and visualization. Having introduced some of the most powerful libraries individually, we will then show how these can be combined in a competitive and ergonomic workflow: particularly when used in conjunction with our literate programming and REPL-enhancing upgrades.
Data science with clojure might seem like an eccentric undertaking, but as we highlight the current state of SciCloj, the key people involved, documentation and reasources, the challenges and outlook for 2025 will also become clear. Whether that means a lab jacket or a straitjacket however, the community is data.
Recorded Oct 25, 2024 at Clojure/conj 2024 in Alexandria, VA