Section 1 – Getting Started

In this section, you will learn the basics about Julia and its plotting ecosystem. We will start with a quick introduction to Julia for data analysis and visualization – no previous Julia experience is needed. Then, we will explore the different plotting packages in the Julia ecosystem. The initial chapters will introduce you to some basic plotting capabilities of Plots and Makie. Then, we will go deeper to see how to create interactive plots and animations with them. This section will also introduce us to Pluto notebooks, interactive and reproducible Julia notebooks that will be essential for following this book’s code examples.

This section comprises the following chapters:

• Chapter 1, An Introduction to Julia for Data Visualization and Analysis
• Chapter 2, The Julia Plotting Ecosystem
• Chapter 3, Getting Interactive Plots with Julia
• Chapter 4, Creating Animations