# Getting our act together in the data ecosystem

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/getting-our-act-together-in-the-data-ecosystem/4522>\
**Category:** Data\
**Created:** [June 28, 2017, 5:53pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/getting-our-act-together-in-the-data-ecosystem/4522 "2017-06-28T17:53:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![nalimilan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/nalimilan/32/147_2.png) [@nalimilan](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/nalimilan)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2017, 5:55pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/getting-our-act-together-in-the-data-ecosystem/4522/5 "2017-07-04T17:55:45Z")

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I’ve just posted the updated plan:

> [@Announcement: An Update on DataFrames Future Plans](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/announcement-an-update-on-dataframes-future-plans/4646):
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> This post summarizes the current roadmap for DataFrames.jl and the data ecosystem in general for the Julia 1.0 milestone. Plans have changed significantly since [the previous post](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/announcement-dataframes-future-plans/266). Indeed, it has appeared that representing missing values via the special Nullable type is not the only solution to attain a high performance in Julia. Thanks to [work](https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/20593) [done](https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/22441) by @jameson and @quinnj, it turns out that representations of nullable values similar to that used by DataArrays (i.e. Union{T, NAtype}) can also be …

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