You're reading from Interactive Visualization and Plotting with Julia Create impressive data visualizations through Julia packages such as Plots, Makie, Gadfly, and more

Product type Paperback

Published in Aug 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801810517

Length 392 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Julia

Tools

Jupyter

Concepts

Data Visualization

Author (1):

Diego Javier Zea

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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1 – Getting Started

2. Chapter 1: An Introduction to Julia for Data Visualization and Analysis FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: The Julia Plotting Ecosystem

4. Chapter 3: Getting Interactive Plots with Julia

5. Chapter 4: Creating Animations

6. Section 2 – Advanced Plot Types

7. Chapter 5: Introducing the Grammar of Graphics

8. Chapter 6: Creating Statistical Plots

9. Chapter 7: Visualizing Graphs

10. Chapter 8: Visualizing Geographically Distributed Data

11. Chapter 9: Plotting Biological Data

12. Section 3 – Mastering Plot Customization

13. Chapter 10: The Anatomy of a Plot

14. Chapter 11: Defining Plot Layouts to Create Figure Panels

15. Chapter 12: Customizing Plot Attributes – Axes, Legends, and Colors

16. Chapter 13: Designing Plot Themes

17. Chapter 14: Designing Your Own Plots – Plot Recipes

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Chapter 5: Introducing the Grammar of Graphics

This chapter will introduce the Grammar of Graphics, which enables us to describe complex graphics simply and quickly. It is advantageous for creating statistical plots and performing data analysis tasks, as it allows for fast data exploration. Learning the basics of the Grammar of Graphics will allow you to catch up quickly with the numerous packages that implement some version of it. In particular, this chapter will teach you about the most popular Julia packages that use some variation of the Grammar of Graphics: Gadfly, VegaLite, and AlgebraOfGraphics.

This chapter will also introduce a fundamental tool for data analysis – the DataFrames package. We will see that the Julia libraries that use the Grammar of Graphics are tightly tied to this tabular representation of data. We will also discuss the correct data layout by introducing the concept of tidy data tables. This will significantly help you perform basic data analysis...