Chapter 4. Jupyter Julia Scripting

Julia is a language specifically designed to be used for high performance, numerical computing. Most importantly, it differs from the previous scripting languages covered in this book (R and, to a certain extent, Python) in that Julia is a full language, not limited to data handling.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Adding Julia scripting to your installation
  • Basic Julia in Jupyter
  • Julia limitations in Jupyter
  • Standard Julia capabilities
  • Julia visualizations in Jupyter
  • Julia Vega plotting
  • Julia parallel processing
  • Julia control flow
  • Julia regular expressions
  • Julia unit testing

Adding Julia scripting to your installation

We will install on Mac and Windows. There are separate steps for making Julia scripting ...

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