Technical requirements

For this chapter, you will need Julia, Pluto, and a web browser with an internet connection. For the plot examples in this chapter, we have used the following packages and versions:

• Plots 1.31.1
• StatsPlots 0.14.30
• CairoMakie 0.6.6
• AlgebraOfGraphics 0.6.0
• Gadfly 1.3.4
• RDatasets 0.7.6
• Distributions 0.25.37
• Clustering 0.14.2
• Distances 0.10.7
• PlutoUI 0.7.23

If you get errors when executing this chapter’s code examples, they will probably come from using different package versions. In that case, you can install the version listed previously while following the indications in the Managing environments section of Chapter 1, An Introduction to Julia for Data Visualization and Analysis. If you are working with Pluto, as suggested in many sections of this chapter, you can use the Pkg cell pattern shown in the Exploring data with Gadfly section of Chapter 5, Introducing the Grammar of Graphics. Alternatively, you...