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This a parallel and independent ecosystem for numerical computing with equivalent libraries:

* pandas - explorer

* numpy - nx

* statsmodel - Not sure this exists yet

The article answers this pretty well.

However, our goals are also to:

* make Elixir a suitable platform for new Machine Learning developments

* fully leverage the power provided by the platform Elixir runs on, the Erlang VM

* provide consistency and stability, especially when working on a domain that is still actively evolving

For those reasons, we chose to invest on Nx as its own foundation, agnostic to any particular framework. The road is definitely longer but we also believe the pay-off will be higher too!