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Learning Functional Programming in Go

You're reading from   Learning Functional Programming in Go Change the way you approach your applications using functional programming in Go

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787281394
Length 670 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Lex Sheehan Lex Sheehan
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Pure Functional Programming in Go 2. Manipulating Collections FREE CHAPTER 3. Using High-Order Functions 4. SOLID Design in Go 5. Adding Functionality with Decoration 6. Applying FP at the Architectural Level 7. Functional Parameters 8. Increasing Performance Using Pipelining 9. Functors, Monoids, and Generics 10. Monads, Type Classes, and Generics 11. Category Theory That Applies 12. Miscellaneous Information and How-Tos

Big data, knowledge-driven development, and data visualization


Big data implies there's a lot of data. When there is a lot of data, it becomes difficult to find meaning. The category theory helps us to remove the unimportant details and see the meaningful information that is there waiting to be discovered.

Data visualization

How can we apply what we've learned in the real world?

Composition sounds great but how can we go from this:

And an I/O Monad:

To something useful.

We can read data from server logs and integrate a graphical user interface (GUI) that renders a presentation that our users can view and derive an understanding from the data that is presented in a meaningful way.

What if our data had a corresponding schema?

Can we generalize the presentation of the data to different layouts? For example, spreadsheet programs allow their users to display different types of graphs based on the same set of rows and columns (pie charts, bar charts, and so on). If we can do that, then the following is...

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