Julia for Data Science

Julia's key feature – multiple dispatch

A function is an object, mapping a tuple of arguments using some expression to a return value. When this function object is unable to return a value, it throws an exception. For different types of arguments the same conceptual function can have different implementations. For example, we can have a function to add two floating point numbers and another function to add two integers. But conceptually, we are only adding two numbers. Julia provides a functionality by which different implementations of the same concept can be implemented easily. The functions don't need to be defined all at once. They are defined in small abstracts. These small abstracts are different argument type combinations and have different ...