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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

Summary

This is the last chapter of this book on creating plots and interactive visualizations with Julia. Throughout this book, we have learned to make the most out of the Plots package and its backends. We have also explored other plotting packages from the Julia ecosystem, mainly Makie and Gadfly.

In the first part of this book, we learned how to use these packages, focusing on their interactivity. In particular, we explored the different topics using Pluto notebooks to benefit from their interactivity and reproducibility. In the last chapter of that section, we learned how to create engaging animations.

The second part of this book focused on exploring the Julia plotting ecosystem and different applications. First, we focused on data visualization and how to create classical statistical plots. Then, we explored graph analysis and visualization in Julia. After that, we learned how to visualize geographically distributed data. Finally, we learned about some tools in the ecosystem...