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Julia for Data Science

By : Anshul Joshi
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Book Image

Julia for Data Science

2 (1)
By: Anshul Joshi

Overview of this book

Julia is a fast and high performing language that's perfectly suited to data science with a mature package ecosystem and is now feature complete. It is a good tool for a data science practitioner. There was a famous post at Harvard Business Review that Data Scientist is the sexiest job of the 21st century. (https://hbr.org/2012/10/data-scientist-the-sexiest-job-of-the-21st-century). This book will help you get familiarised with Julia's rich ecosystem, which is continuously evolving, allowing you to stay on top of your game. This book contains the essentials of data science and gives a high-level overview of advanced statistics and techniques. You will dive in and will work on generating insights by performing inferential statistics, and will reveal hidden patterns and trends using data mining. This has the practical coverage of statistics and machine learning. You will develop knowledge to build statistical models and machine learning systems in Julia with attractive visualizations. You will then delve into the world of Deep learning in Julia and will understand the framework, Mocha.jl with which you can create artificial neural networks and implement deep learning. This book addresses the challenges of real-world data science problems, including data cleaning, data preparation, inferential statistics, statistical modeling, building high-performance machine learning systems and creating effective visualizations using Julia.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Julia for Data Science
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Pyplot for Julia


This package was made by Steven G. Johnson and provides Python's famous matplotlib library to Julia. If you have used matplotlib, you will be familiar with its pyplot module.

We learned about the Julia's Pycall package in the first chapter, and PyPlot makes use of the same package to make the call to the matplotlib plotting library directly from Julia. This call has very less (or no) overhead, and arrays are passed directly without making a copy.

Multimedia I/O

Only plaintext display is provided by the base Julia runtime. By loading external modules or by using graphical environments such as Jupyter notebooks, rich multimedia output can be given. Julia has a standardized mechanism to display the rich multimedia outputs (images, audio, and video). This is provided by the following:

  • display(x) is the richest multimedia display of the Julia object

  • Arbitrary multimedia representations are done by overloading the writemime of user-defined types

  • By subclassing a generic display type...