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Jupyter Cookbook

By : Dan Toomey
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Jupyter Cookbook

By: Dan Toomey

Overview of this book

Jupyter has garnered a strong interest in the data science community of late, as it makes common data processing and analysis tasks much simpler. This book is for data science professionals who want to master various tasks related to Jupyter to create efficient, easy-to-share, scientific applications. The book starts with recipes on installing and running the Jupyter Notebook system on various platforms and configuring the various packages that can be used with it. You will then see how you can implement different programming languages and frameworks, such as Python, R, Julia, JavaScript, Scala, and Spark on your Jupyter Notebook. This book contains intuitive recipes on building interactive widgets to manipulate and visualize data in real time, sharing your code, creating a multi-user environment, and organizing your notebook. You will then get hands-on experience with Jupyter Labs, microservices, and deploying them on the web. By the end of this book, you will have taken your knowledge of Jupyter to the next level to perform all key tasks associated with it.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Visualizing with Julia


Julia is a programming language specifically built for numerical computing. There are several features that make it a great fit for use as a Jupyter scripting language. We will use several of the available packages for visualization.

Of special note is that Julia has direct access to most R packages, so those can be used as well.

Note

A word of caution: I could not produce most Julia visualizations on a Windows PC. For this section, I used a Mac, and even then I had to try adding packages several times before things started to work.

Getting ready

Before using Julia scripts, you should add some standard packages and update all packages to the current levels. You can do that with these commands directly in the Julia console rather than in a Notebook:

Note

I would recommend that you add a package by closing the Notebook, opening a Julia console, adding the package, reopening the Notebook, and then using the new package.

Pkg.add("DataFrames")
Pkg.add("RDatasets")
Pkg.add("Gadfly...