Both alike in dignity

In which I dip my toes into the Julia programming language, get overly dramatic (literally!) and start a series of shorter blog posts, called ’Capulet’s Orchard.

Welcome to Capulet’s orchard a miniblog series chronicling my journey into the Julia programming language, one (code) snippet at a time. Each post is an – often spontaneous – note, discovering Julia’s syntax and surprises. I’ll mainly write those small soliloquies as a way to repeat and practice what I learn. Publishing them might interest or inspire fellow explorers find their way into Julia.

Capulet’s orchard (Act 2, Scene 2)

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JULIET appears above at a window
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JULIET
  O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?
  Deny thy father and refuse thy name;
  Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love,
  And I'll no longer be a Capulet.

Romeo and Juliet – William Shakespeare¹

I usually use for my data analysis and visualization needs and this will probably not change in the forseable future. I enjoy the syntax, the vast ecosystem and especially the mighty grammar of graphics based visualization approach, which allows to programmatically create nearly every chart conceivable. But I felt the urge to leave my {tidyverse}-comfort zone and learn something completely new.

To learn Julia, I’ll primarily work through the Julia Data Science book². Apart from this curriculum, I want to set a personal goal for this little endeavour: I want to be able to recreate a certain chart using Julia.

My contribution for day 3 of the #30DayChartChallenge 2022. See here for the R code

Footnotes

1. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, https://shakespeare.mit.edu

2. Storopoli, Huijzer and Alonso (2021). Julia Data Science. https://juliadatascience.io. ISBN: 9798489859165