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.
publication date
2022-08-29
what you will learn
Create interactive plots with Makie, Plots, Jupyter, and Pluto
Create standard statistical plots and visualize clustering results
Plot geographically distributed and biological data
Visualize graphs and networks using GraphRecipes and GraphPlots
Find out how to draw and animate objects with Javis, Plots, and Makie
Define plot themes to reuse plot visual aspect customizations
Arrange plots using Plots, Makie, and Gadfly layout systems
Define new plot types and determine how Plots and Makie show objects
key features
Learn to use static and interactive plots to explore data with Julia * Become well versed with the various plotting attributes needed to customize your plots * Create insightful and appealing plots using data interactions, animations, layouts, and themes
approach
This book uses practical examples with step-by-step explanations to introduce the fundamental topics for plotting in Julia. Those examples are focused and minimal, giving you the basis for further exploration. You will begin with a gentle introduction to Julia for data visualization and then move on to exploring the diverse set of tools that the language offers for static and interactive plotting.
audience
Data analysts looking to explore Julia's data visualization capabilities will find this book helpful, along with scientists and academics who want to generate and communicate knowledge and improve their teaching material. This data visualization book will also interest Julia programmers willing to delve into the language plotting ecosystem and improve their visualization skills. Basic programming knowledge is assumed — but the book will introduce you to Julia's important features. Familiarity with mathematical and statistical concepts will help you make the most of some of the chapters.
short description
Interactive Visualization and Plotting with Julia shows you how to leverage Julia to visualize data and create interactive plots, as well as how to use various plotting packages from the Julia ecosystem. This book will help you to master the different ways to customize plots, design figures, and even create new visualization types.
subtitle
Create impressive data visualizations through Julia packages such as Plots, Makie, Gadfly, and more
keywords
Julia, julia programming, data analysis, data visualization, plots, graphs
Product ISBN
9781801810517
