Clojurians Log v2
data-science
I’ve been browsing job ads lately and it’s a depressing ocean of python data science positions, seems like world domination is complete 😄 out of curiosity are there companies out there using clojure or at least FP-inclined for data science? besides consultancies. just interesting in reading some stories
To be completely fair, it is a lower risk to have your ML team working in python. And doing ML+Data Science in Clojure does provide advantages, but you need to have a team of really good people and keep them.
I am setting up a team in a manufacturing company for product and production optimization with clojure and ML.
So cool, which stack are you going to use? Custom?
@kimi.im pure Clojure ML stack?
Mostly. As there are not too many complicated use cases at the moment.
I finished my last Python job (the startup died due to Covid) in August and have been trying to land a Clojure job but dunno, without success, I’m turning to Python and ML again :man-shrugging:
ah sorry to hear that 😕 my company let go someone in my team due to restructuring and he’s also having a hard time finding a job because we were mostly doing ML with R and there’s like 0 jobs for that
I suspect the largest intersection of FP-inclined languages and data science jobs would be firms that leverage Scala + Spark.
https://clojurians.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/151924-data-science is where you may get more info on this.