Books using Perl

[Boyd Duffee]

In the course of looking up various statistical and numerical techniques in the library, the books I keep seeing are using example code, mostly in Python nowadays.  O'Reilly have books using Excel, Statistics with R, the Big Data books (data visualization, think bayes) favour Python.  Does anybody know of any books that use Perl or PDL in their examples?

[Jonathan "Duke" Leto]

Howdy,

"Mastering Algorithms with Perl" is one of my favorite Perl books:

http://www.amazon.com/Mastering-Algorithms-Perl-Jarkko-Hietaniemi/dp/1565923987

There is also "Mastering Perl for Bioinformatics"

http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596003074.do

which has good examples of non-trivial statistical algorithms.

If you haven't already seen it, you may want to look at Math::GSL for
implementing numerical algorithms in Perl:

https://metacpan.org/pod/Math::GSL

Duke

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[Zakariyya Mughal]

On 2014-06-10 at 11:32:43 -0700, Jonathan "Duke" Leto wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> "Mastering Algorithms with Perl" is one of my favorite Perl books:
>
> http://www.amazon.com/Mastering-Algorithms-Perl-Jarkko-Hietaniemi/dp/1565923987
>
> There is also "Mastering Perl for Bioinformatics"
>
> http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596003074.do
>
> which has good examples of non-trivial statistical algorithms.

To add to the list of books, I recently came across "Building
Bioinformatics Solutions with Perl, R, and SQL"
<http://bixsolutions.net/>. The second edition was released in January
2014 and it appears quite up to date from the sample I read. In fact,
the example code for building web sites uses Mojolicious
<https://github.com/dazoakley/bbs-v2>.

>
> If you haven't already seen it, you may want to look at Math::GSL for
> implementing numerical algorithms in Perl:
>
> https://metacpan.org/pod/Math::GSL

Related to GSL, there is a book I came across a while back called
"Modeling with Data" <http://www.modelingwithdata.org/>[^1]. It covers
using the GSL library to write stats programs in C. There's lots of good
examples in there and you can actually download the PDF from the book's
site.


Cheers,
- zaki

[^1]: The author also wrote "21st Century C".

[Joel Berger]

Here is another online book that might be of interest, called "Perl and Unix for Biologists". Admittedly I haven't vetted it completely, but from what I have read it seems promising.

http://korflab.ucdavis.edu/Unix_and_Perl/index.html