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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

Sharing your interactive visualizations

Up to this moment, we have seen different tools that Julia offers us to create interactive visualizations. Now, we are going to discuss how we can share them. We will also showcase some Julia libraries to create shareable interactive dashboards. The way we can share an interactive visualization depends on the tools we have used to create them. But first, let’s start with the most basic way to share Julia projects.

Creating a Julia application

Creating and distributing a Julia application is an excellent way to share your interactive Julia visualizations; this section will give tips on how to achieve that. A Julia application is simply a folder with a specific structure and project environment with Project.toml and Manifest.toml files. We have seen how to create a project environment in Chapter 1, An Introduction to Julia for Data Visualization and Analysis. Therefore, we will describe the folder structure here. Julia applications...