Here we give an overview of the data values and types in East.

In this section you will conclude with some advanced topics in East.

Arrays are collections containing an ordered list of values.

The final East type to cover is the blob.

The final data type to cover in East is the "blob", which represents a collection of binary data similar to a file on your computer.

Boolean values represent logical true and false, and are ubiquitous in computing.

Here you will learn two fundamental "compound" data types in East - structs and variants.

One common data encoding is the humble CSV (comma separated values) file.

Previously you have seen structs and variants, which contain a fixed amount of data.

Dates and times are central to business operations and planning and are an essential part of Elara and East.

Dictionaries are collections containing a sorted list of keys and associated values.

East expressions are the primary way of adding logic to your Elara solutions.

Equality and ordering in East may work slightly differently to how you may be used to in imperative or object-oriented languages.

With East you can work with collections of data large and small.

East supports two distinct types of numbers – integers and floating-point numbers.

All the data and logic hosted on the Elara platform that make up your solution are implemented using the East data model and expression language. Here you will gain an understanding of why Elara created East, how it benefits you, the ways in which data can be represented, and how to manipulate data with expressions.

The Elara platform can merge together machine learning with simulation and optimization.

The final aspect worthy of discussion is how mutation and object identity works in "imperative contexts" of Elara.

East includes a null value, which serves as a placeholder where there is no data or data is missing.

Here you will learn the basic, or "primitive", data types that you can use with East.

Elara is a platform for simulation, optimization and machine learning.

So far you have learnt how to transform one collection to another.

Sets are collections containing an sorted list of distinct "keys".

Text in East is represent as strings.

Structs are data "structures" containing multiple values associated with field names.

East has a strong, static type system to enable safety and speed.

In this learning topic, you will gain an understanding of you can manipulate data in Elara platform using a pure functional data language.

Variants represent objects that can be one of a finite number of different things (cases).

Elara was created to provide a platform for solving complex business problems.