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We will be charging £1500pp +VAT for this event

This course is across 3 days and is aimed at statisticians and data scientists already familiar with a dynamic programming language (such as R, Python or Octave) who would like to learn how to use Scala. Scala is a free modern, powerful, strongly-typed, functional programming language, well-suited to statistical computing and data science applications. In particular, it is fast and efficient, runs on the Java virtual machine (JVM), and is designed to easily exploit modern multi-core and distributed computing architectures.

The course will begin with an introduction to the Scala language and basic concepts of functional programming (FP), as well as essential Scala tools such as SBT for managing builds and library dependencies. The course will continue with an overview of the Scala collections library, including parallel collections, and we will see how parallel collections enable trivial parallelisation of many statistical computing algorithms on multi-core hardware. We will next survey the wider Scala library ecosystem, paying particular attention to Breeze, the Scala library for scientific computing and numerical linear algebra. We will see how to exploit non-uniform random number generation and matrix computations in Breeze for statistical applications. Both maximum-likelihood and simulation-based Bayesian statistical inference algorithms will be considered. Much of the final day will be dedicated to understanding Apache Spark, the distributed Big Data analytics platform for Scala. We will understand how Spark relates to the parallel collections we have already examined, and see how it can be used not only for the processing of very large data sets, but also for the parallel and distributed analysis of large or otherwise computationally-intensive models. As time permits, we will discuss more advanced FP concepts, such as typeclasses, higher-kinded types, monoids, functors, monads, applicatives, streams and streaming data, and see how these enable the development of flexible, scalable, generic code in strongly-typed functional languages

COURSE STRUCTURE

The course will be delivered through a combination of lectures, live demos and hands-on practical sessions. For the practical sessions, participants will be expected to actively engage with the material, run demos, follow examples, and write code to solve simple problems.

If you are interested in this 3 day intensive course you can also contact us directly for information about how you can study at our offices for a lower price.

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