Go is a statically typed language and not commonly used for Data Science such as Python or R. But it is worth trying. So let’s figure out how you can do Data Science in the Golang by Google.

Requirements

You will need to have Go installed on your machine. If you are new to Go, I recommend you to check out this beginners tutorial on Go:

Getting Started

To get started, we create a new project, which is done as follows, you create a new file called main.go and you enter the following starter code:

package main

import (
 "fmt"
 "log"
 "os"
)
func main() {
}

And that’s all you need to get started. Let’s try to run it to see if we don’t get any errors with: go run main.go

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