I want you to meet Teddy. Teddy wanna be like pandas. Pandas are cool. Teddy want be cool too!

Reasoning

This library provides some Common Lisp facitilies to work with data frames.

Common Lisp already has numcl to operate on arrays, and now we need a more abstract tool to work with data like data sheets.

Teddy make it possible to define a dataframe full of data, to slice it in different ways, to join data frames and see some statistics about the data.

This is a proof of the concept and API will be changed. Check the ChangeLog.md to learn about new abilities and refactoring details.

How to create a data-frame

Here is how we can create a simple data-frame:

POFTHEDAY> (teddy/data-frame:make-data-frame
            '("Idx" "Integers" "Uniform floats" "Gaussian")
            :rows
            (loop repeat 10
                  for idx upfrom 0
                  collect (list idx
                                (random 100)
                                (random 1.0)
                                (statistics:random-normal
                                 :mean 5.0
                                 :sd 0.2))))
+-----+----------+----------------+----------+
| Idx | Integers | Uniform floats | Gaussian |
+-----+----------+----------------+----------+
|   0 |       41 |           0.27 |   4.89d0 |
|   1 |       98 |           0.08 |   4.93d0 |
|   2 |        8 |           0.45 |   5.15d0 |
|   3 |       56 |           0.63 |   4.87d0 |
|   4 |       79 |           0.42 |   4.72d0 |
|   5 |       19 |           0.04 |   4.73d0 |
|   6 |        1 |           0.34 |   4.93d0 |
|   7 |       79 |           0.60 |   5.25d0 |
|   8 |       42 |           0.08 |   5.10d0 |
|   9 |        7 |           0.86 |   5.31d0 |
+-----+----------+----------------+----------+

Data manipulation

Now we can slice it by columns, rows or both:

POFTHEDAY> (teddy/data-frame:head *d* 2)
+-----+----------+----------------+----------+
| Idx | Integers | Uniform floats | Gaussian |
+-----+----------+----------------+----------+
|   0 |       41 |           0.27 |   4.89d0 |
|   1 |       98 |           0.08 |   4.93d0 |
+-----+----------+----------------+----------+
POFTHEDAY> (teddy/data-frame:tail *d* 2)
+-----+----------+----------------+----------+
| Idx | Integers | Uniform floats | Gaussian |
+-----+----------+----------------+----------+
|   8 |       42 |           0.08 |   5.10d0 |
|   9 |        7 |           0.86 |   5.31d0 |
+-----+----------+----------------+----------+
POFTHEDAY> (teddy/data-frame:slice
            *d*
            :columns '("idx" "gaussian"))
+-----+----------+
| Idx | Gaussian |
+-----+----------+
|   0 |   4.89d0 |
|   1 |   4.93d0 |
|   2 |   5.15d0 |
|   3 |   4.87d0 |
|   4 |   4.72d0 |
|   5 |   4.73d0 |
|   6 |   4.93d0 |
|   7 |   5.25d0 |
|   8 |   5.10d0 |
|   9 |   5.31d0 |
+-----+----------+
POFTHEDAY> (teddy/data-frame:slice *d*
            :columns '("idx" "gaussian")
            :from 4
            :to 6)
+-----+----------+
| Idx | Gaussian |
+-----+----------+
|   4 |   4.72d0 |
|   5 |   4.73d0 |
+-----+----------+

Analyzing data

Also, we might want to see some descriptive statistical data about our data frame. This is pretty easy with Teddy:

POFTHEDAY> (teddy/stats:stats *d*)
+----------------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+-------+-------+---------+
| Column         | Min    | p25    | p50    | p75    | Max    | Mean  | SD    | Sum     |
+----------------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+-------+-------+---------+
| Idx            |      0 |      2 |   4.50 |      7 |      9 |  4.50 |  3.03 |      45 |
| Integers       |      1 |      8 |  41.50 |     79 |     98 | 43.00 | 34.40 |     430 |
| Uniform floats |   0.04 |   0.08 |   0.38 |   0.60 |   0.86 |  0.38 |  0.27 |    3.75 |
| Gaussian       | 4.72d0 | 4.87d0 | 4.93d0 | 5.15d0 | 5.31d0 |  4.99 |  0.20 | 49.88d0 |
+----------------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+-------+-------+---------+

Probably, we can make some extandable protocol to calculate other properties.

Iteration over rows

Data frame stores data as columns. Each column is a vector of particular type. If you want to process a row, you can create an iterator and use it to go through rows like that:

POFTHEDAY> (loop with iterator = (teddy/data-frame:make-iterator *d*)
                 for row = (funcall iterator)
                 while row
                 do (format t "Row: ~S~%"
                            row))
Row: (0 41 0.26806116 4.887522971759381d0)
Row: (1 98 0.081421256 4.928584134866222d0)
Row: (2 8 0.45165908 5.147222819038834d0)
Row: (3 56 0.62647486 4.874349648519968d0)
Row: (4 79 0.41671002 4.7239718274963485d0)
Row: (5 19 0.04152584 4.727268395019779d0)
Row: (6 1 0.3369373 4.93339303609316d0)
Row: (7 79 0.59791017 5.2466443304900965d0)
Row: (8 42 0.076958776 5.103448455243024d0)
Row: (9 7 0.85732913 5.310498824093041d0)

Plotting data

Plotting facilities as rudimentary. All functions related to plotting are in the teddy/plot package. Right now GNUPlot is used via eazy-gnuplot library.

Here is how we can plot our data from all columns:

POFTHEDAY> (teddy/plot:plot *d*
            "docs/media/0099/simple-plot.png")

If we want to plot only gaussian, then it will be wrong, because we need histogram type of plot. This it "to be done":

POFTHEDAY> (teddy/plot:plot
            (teddy/data-frame:slice *d*
                                    :columns '("Idx" "Gaussian"))
            "docs/media/0099/gaussian.png")

Another type of plots Teddy is able to render right now is a "timeseries":

POFTHEDAY> (defparameter *moscow-population*
             (teddy/data-frame:make-data-frame
              '("Date" "Population")
              :rows '(("1350-01-01" 30000)
                      ("1840-01-01" 349000)
                      ("1907-01-01" 1345700)
                      ("1967-01-01" 6422000)
                      ("1994-01-01" 9066000)
                      ("2010-01-01" 11500000)
                      ("2020-01-01" 12680000))))
*MOSCOW-POPULATION*
POFTHEDAY> (teddy/plot:plot-timeseries
            *moscow-population* "docs/media/0099/moscow2.png"
            :title "Moscow population")
"docs/media/0099/moscow.png"

Join the effort to make Teddy really useful for data analysis!

Right now, Teddy installable only from Ultralisp, because it is the best place to host unstable fast changing Common Lisp libraries.

Credentials

• Logo is by JenDigitalArt, was downloaded from Pixabay.