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Interactive Visualization and Plotting with Julia

By : Diego Javier Zea
Book Image

Interactive Visualization and Plotting with Julia

By: Diego Javier Zea

Overview of this book

The Julia programming language offers a fresh perspective into the data visualization field. Interactive Visualization and Plotting with Julia begins by introducing the Julia language and the Plots package. The book then gives a quick overview of the Julia plotting ecosystem to help you choose the best library for your task. In particular, you will discover the many ways to create interactive visualizations with its packages. You’ll also leverage Pluto notebooks to gain interactivity and use them intensively through this book. You’ll find out how to create animations, a handy skill for communication and teaching. Then, the book shows how to solve data analysis problems using DataFrames and various plotting packages based on the grammar of graphics. Furthermore, you’ll discover how to create the most common statistical plots for data exploration. Also, you’ll learn to visualize geographically distributed data, graphs and networks, and biological data. Lastly, this book will go deeper into plot customizations with Plots, Makie, and Gadfly—focusing on the former—teaching you to create plot themes, arrange multiple plots into a single figure, and build new plot types. By the end of this Julia book, you’ll be able to create interactive and publication-quality static plots for data analysis and exploration tasks using Julia.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
1
Section 1 – Getting Started
6
Section 2 – Advanced Plot Types
12
Section 3 – Mastering Plot Customization

Chapter 10: The Anatomy of a Plot

This is the first chapter of this book’s third part, Mastering Plot Customizations. These last few chapters will allow you to fully customize Julia’s plots – mainly via the Plots package. To customize our plots, we should first know the various parts that compose them. Those components can have different names and customization levels across plotting packages.

Therefore, this chapter will dissect figures from Plots, Makie, and Gadfly to understand their terminology. This will give us a glance into the customization opportunities of those elements. We will explore ways to customize those elements further in Chapter 12, Customizing Plot Attributes – Axes, Legends, and Colors.

In this chapter, we’re going to cover the following main topics:

  • The anatomy of a Plots plot
  • Knowing the components of Makie’s figures
  • Exploring Gadfly’s customizable components