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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 12: Customizing Plot Attributes – Axes, Legends, and Colors

Depending on your work, you might find it helpful to customize different visual aspects of your plots and figures. For example, you might need to increase the number of axis ticks to make a plot more readable, to inform units in the axis labels, or choose color-blind friendly colors. Plots and Makie are very flexible plotting libraries, allowing you to control that and many more aspects of your figures. These libraries achieve that thanks to a large set of plotting attributes, some of which we will explore in this chapter. Moreover, we will learn to explore the available plotting attributes from our Julia session.

In this chapter, we will learn how to customize text elements, axes, legends, and colors using Plots and Makie, focusing on the former. What’s more, we will explore other packages to help us add LaTeX equations to our figures and change color palettes.

In this chapter, we’re going...