# Ideas for useful packages missing from the ecosystem

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ideas-for-useful-packages-missing-from-the-ecosystem/42063>\
**Category:** Specific Domains\
**Tags:** package, proposal, development\
**Created:** [June 25, 2020, 7:45pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ideas-for-useful-packages-missing-from-the-ecosystem/42063 "2020-06-25T19:45:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![Albert\_Zevelev](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/albert_zevelev/32/11844_2.png) [@Albert\_Zevelev](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Albert_Zevelev)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2020, 1:21am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ideas-for-useful-packages-missing-from-the-ecosystem/42063/14 "2020-07-02T01:21:38Z")

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MICE is crucial for ML & currently super slow in R. Our ecosystem& the ML community would greatly benefit if there was a Julia implementation

> [@How to do multiple imputation on Julia?](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-do-multiple-imputation-on-julia/17713/14):
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> I have been working a bit on this lately, there is some functionality that works quite well for time-series and matrices [https://github.com/baggepinnen/TotalLeastSquares.jl#missing-data-imputation](https://github.com/baggepinnen/TotalLeastSquares.jl#missing-data-imputation) it’s not a complete data-imputation package but in the setting where it works it works well.

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