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Mastering Julia

You're reading from   Mastering Julia Enhance your analytical and programming skills for data modeling and processing with Julia

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781805129790
Length 506 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Malcolm Sherrington Malcolm Sherrington
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: The Julia Environment 2. Chapter 2: Developing in Julia FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: The Julia Type System 4. Chapter 4: The Three Ms 5. Chapter 5: Interoperability 6. Chapter 6: Working with Data 7. Chapter 7: Scientific Programming 8. Chapter 8: Visualization 9. Chapter 9: Database Access 10. Chapter 10: Networks and Multitasking 11. Chapter 11: Julia’s Back Pages 12. Index 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Textual visualization

Displays that use text refer to packages that do not need a graphics engine (such as QT). The graphics are generated in one of two ways:

  • Using normal printable characters, either ASCII and/or Unicode
  • By writing textual markup, normally based on LaTeX, though via Postscript or even directly to a PDF is possible

We learned how to implement the first of these methods previously, but it will be useful to briefly mention it again here.

Simple inline displays

When we provided an overview of Julia in Chapter 1, we briefly saw that it is possible to create some quite sophisticated text graphics (that is, using printable characters) using the UnicodePlots package. It is the successor of early packages such as ASCIIPlots and TextPlots and provides a wider variety of available graphic types to display.

We saw examples of a line plot and a histogram in Chapter 1. As a quick refresher, I’ll create a horizontal bar plot of the populations...

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