Mastering Julia: Develop your analytical and programming skills further in Julia to solve complex data processing problems - Softcover

Sherrington, Malcolm

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1783553316 ISBN 13: 9781783553310

Verlag: Packt Publishing, 2015

Inhaltsangabe

Key Features

• Build statistical models with linear regression and analysis of variance (ANOVA)
• Create your own modules and contribute to the Julia package system
• Complete an extensive data science project through the entire cycle from ETL to analytics and data visualization

Book Description

Julia is a well-constructed programming language with fast execution speed, eliminating the classic problem of performing analysis in one language and translating it for performance into a second. This book will help you develop and enhance your programming skills in Julia to solve real-world automation challenges.

This book starts off with a refresher on installing and running Julia on different platforms. Next, you will compare the different ways of working with Julia and explore Julia's key features in-depth by looking at design and build. You will see how data works using simple statistics and analytics, and discover Julia's speed, its real strength, which makes it particularly useful in highly intensive computing tasks and observe how Julia can cooperate with external processes in order to enhance graphics and data visualization. Finally, you will look into meta-programming and learn how it adds great power to the language and establish networking and distributed computing with Julia.

What You Will Learn

• Install and build Julia and configure it with your environment
• Build a data science project through the entire cycle of ETL, analytics, and data visualization
• Understand the type system and principles of multiple dispatch for a better coding experience in Julia
• Interact with data files and data frames to study simple statistics and analytics
• Display graphics and visualizations to carry out modeling and simulation in Julia
• Use Julia to interact with SQL and NoSQL databases
• Work with distributed systems on the Web and in the cloud
• Develop your own packages and contribute to the Julia Community

About the Author

Malcolm Sherrington has been working in computing for over 35 years. He currently runs his own company in the finance sector, and is particularly interested in High Performance Computing and applications of GPUs and parallelism. Malcolm is also the organizer of the London Julia User Group, and co-organizer of the UK High Performance Computing and the financial engineers and Quant London meetup groups.

Table of Contents

1. The Julia Environment
2. Developing in Julia
3. Types and Dispatch
4. Interoperability
5. Working with Data
6. Scientific Programming
7. Graphics
8. Databases
9. Networking
10. Working with Julia

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Reseña del editor

This hands-on guide is aimed at practitioners of data science. The book assumes some previous skills with Julia and skills in coding in a scripting language such as Python or R, or a compiled language such as C or Java.

Biografía del autor

Malcolm Sherrington has been working in computing for over 35 years. He holds degrees in mathematics, chemistry, and engineering and has given lectures at two different universities in the UK as well as worked in the aerospace and healthcare industries. Currently, he is running his own company in the finance sector, with specific interests in High Performance Computing and applications of GPUs and parallelism. Always hands-on, Malcolm started programming scientific problems in Fortran and C, progressing through Ada and Common Lisp, and recently became involved with data processing and analytics in Perl, Python, and R. Malcolm is the organizer of the London Julia User Group. In addition, he is a co-organizer of the UK High Performance Computing and the financial engineers and Quant London meetup groups.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Packt Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1783553316
• ISBN 13: 9781783553310
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 385
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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