Preface
Data Scientist: The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century, Harvard Business Review. And why Julia? A high level language with large scientific community and performance comparable to C, it is touted as next best language for data science. Using Julia, we can create statistical models, highly performant machine learning systems, and beautiful and attractive visualizations.
What this book covers
Chapter 1, The Groundwork – Julia’s Environment, explains how to set up the Julia’s environment (Command Line(REPL) and Jupyter Notebook) and explains Julia’s ecosystem, why Julia is special, and package management. It also gives an introduction to parallel processing and multiple dispatch and explains how Julia is suited for data science.
Chapter 2, ...
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