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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

Section 2 – Advanced Plot Types

In this section, we will explore predefined plot types scattered through different libraries in the Julia ecosystem. We will introduce packages and plots needed for data analysis and visualization. In particular, we will learn about DataFrames and the Julia packages inspired by The Grammar of Graphics, namely, Gadfly, VegaLite, and AlgebraOfGraphics. Next, we will introduce StatsPlots and explore how to create classical statistical plots with Julia. Then, we will learn how to work with graphs and networks in Julia and explore different plotting libraries for their visualization. After that, we will change the subject again to learn how to draw maps and visualize geographically distributed data. Finally, we will discover some Julia packages for plotting biological objects, such as sequences and protein structures.

This section comprises the following chapters: