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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

Technical requirements

You will need a computer with an internet connection and the following software installed:

  • A modern web browser.
  • Julia 1.6 or higher.
  • The Pluto and IJulia Julia packages to access the notebooks and Plots, GLMakie, and WGLMakie for plotting. The chapter will also mention other plotting libraries, but those are the only ones that are required.
  • A text editor could be handy to work with the example scripts; we recommend having Visual Studio Code (VS Code) with the Julia extension.

The code examples for this chapter are in the Chapter03 folder of the book’s GitHub repository, found at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Interactive-Visualization-and-Plotting-with-Julia.