Julia Programming Projects: Learn Julia 1.x by building apps for data analysis, visualization, machine learning, and the web - Softcover

Salceanu, Adrian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 178829274X ISBN 13: 9781788292740

Publisher: Packt Publishing, 2018

Synopsis

Key Features

• An in-depth exploration of Julia's growing ecosystem of packages by building 4 exciting projects
• Work with the most powerful open-source libraries for machine learning, data wrangling, and data visualization.
• Learn to perform supervised learning, unsupervised learning as well as time series analysis with Julia.

Book Description

Julia is a young programming language that offers a unique combination of performance and productivity that promises to change scientific computing and programming. It also puts performance center stage, achieving C-like execution speed and excellent applications in multi-core, GPU, and cloud computing. After six years in development as an Open Source project, Julia is now ready to take the stage with the release of v1.0. Follow through "Julia v1.0 By Example" for an encompassing exploration of the language by means of progressively engaging examples.

Build practical knowledge and use Julia and its most popular packages to address data science problems and handle generic programming tasks. Beginning with an introduction to the language and its syntax, the book will go on to building the first project where you will learn to analyze and manipulate the Iris dataset using Julia. Then we will explore functions and Julia's type system to build a complex web scraping project. Further, you'll dive into more advanced stuff like supervised machine learning where you'll build a recommender system for a dating website. For the final project, you will go deeper, learning about unsupervised learning, time series, statistics functions as well as visualization with Gadfly and Vega. By the end of the book, you would have gained the practical knowledge, enough to help you build statistical models and projects in Julia.

What you will learn

• Leverage Julia Lang's features, and work with packages.
• Analyze and manipulate dataset using Julia
• Write complex code while building a real-life Julia application
• Utilize functions, user defined types and various control flow available with Julia.
• Develop and execute a web app using Julia and HTTP.Server
• Build a supervised machine learning system with Julia using available packages
• Explore unsupervised machine learning algorithms for data analytics

About this title

About the Author

Adrian Salceanu has been a professional software developer for over 15 years. For the last 10, he's been leading agile teams in developing real-time, data-intensive web and mobile products. Adrian is a public speaker and an enthusiastic contributor to the open source community, focusing on high-performance web development. He's the organizer of the Barcelona Julia Users group and the creator of Genie, a high-performance, highly productive Julia web framework. Adrian has a Master's degree in computing and a postgraduate degree in advanced computer science.

Edition details

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 178829274X
• ISBN 13: 9781788292740
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 500