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Julia Cookbook

By : Raj R Jalem, Rohit
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Julia Cookbook

By: Raj R Jalem, Rohit

Overview of this book

Want to handle everything that Julia can throw at you and get the most of it every day? This practical guide to programming with Julia for performing numerical computation will make you more productive and able work with data more efficiently. The book starts with the main features of Julia to help you quickly refresh your knowledge of functions, modules, and arrays. We’ll also show you how to utilize the Julia language to identify, retrieve, and transform data sets so you can perform data analysis and data manipulation. Later on, you’ll see how to optimize data science programs with parallel computing and memory allocation. You’ll get familiar with the concepts of package development and networking to solve numerical problems using the Julia platform. This book includes recipes on identifying and classifying data science problems, data modelling, data analysis, data manipulation, meta-programming, multidimensional arrays, and parallel computing. By the end of the book, you will acquire the skills to work more effectively with your data.
Table of Contents (7 chapters)

Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of text styles that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles and an explanation of their meaning. Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: "The DataFrames package is needed to deal with TSV files."

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

query = """ CREATE TABLE Student
      (
         ID INT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
         Name VARCHAR(255),
         Attendance FLOAT,
         JoinDate DATE,
         Enrolments INT,
         PRIMARY KEY (ID)
     );"""

New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, for example, in menus or dialog boxes, appear in the text like this: "If we check the page, we should see our Page rendered! alert logged to the console."

Note

Warnings or important notes appear in a box like this.

Tip

Tips and tricks appear like this.