Book Image

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 14: Designing Your Own Plots – Plot Recipes

So far in this book, you’ve learned how to plot our data, customize the plot aspect, and even combine different plots to create more complex figures. In this chapter, we will use that knowledge to develop new plot types using the recipe system. The Julia ecosystem heavily uses this system, and we have already seen examples of these Plots recipes in this book, such as the recipes for plotting statistical plots, graphs, and maps. This last example is interesting as it also uses the shape series to draw polygons, which is helpful when drawing with Plots and creating custom markers — two topics we will address in this chapter.

In this chapter, we will learn how to create custom shapes and plot recipes with Plots. Also, we will briefly describe how to draw and create plotting recipes with Makie. We will introduce you to these topics so that you can create custom visualizations for your favorite data types with minimum...