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Recreating the Makie logo with Luxor.jl

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This is the logo of Makie.jl:
May 4, 2024

 

RAW photo library automation with Julia

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In this post I describe how I use Julia to automatically synchronize my Capture One raw photo catalog to my iCloud via Apple Photos, so that I can view and share the jpegs…
Sep 12, 2023

 

Extracting data from Harry Potter with GPT-3

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In this blog post, I’ll show how I used Julia and a GPT-3 model (via an online API) in an attempt to analyze the monetary value of items in the Harry Potter novels, and what…
Oct 13, 2022

 

Pkg.jl and Julia Environments for Beginners

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When you start using Julia, you will quickly come in contact with Pkg.jl, its package manager. It’s reasonably easy to install a few packages and start using Julia. But from…
Aug 27, 2022

 

Composing macros inside-out with Julia

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Macros in Julia, denoted by the @ prefix, are used to transform code before it is executed. They are often used to reduce boilerplate or implement domain specific languages…
Aug 9, 2022

 

Multi-columns, shortcut strings and subset transformations in DataFrameMacros.jl v0.2

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DataFrameMacros.jl is a Julia package that makes it easier to manipulate DataFrames, by rewriting code into source-function-sink expressions that conform to DataFrames.jl’s…
Dec 28, 2021

Analyzing international football results with Julia

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As the UEFA Euro 202(0/1) is going on, I was inspired to check out a dataset of all international men’s football matches since the dawn of time. This post goes over some…
Jun 21, 2021

 

Julia macros for beginners

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Macros are a powerful and interesting feature of the Julia programming language, but they can also be confusing. Users coming from Python, Matlab or R have not come in…
Jun 7, 2021

 

Reading data from the web with CSV.jl, DataFrames.jl and Chain.jl

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Recently, I had to read in a dataset from Hillenbrand (1995), published as an annotated csv-like file on a website. The dataset describes formant frequencies of several…
May 20, 2021

 

Tuples and Vectors, Allocations and Performance for Beginners

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If you’re new to Julia, here is a scenario that might have tripped you up already: Let’s define two points. Both are just a collection of two floating point numbers. But one…
Oct 31, 2020

 

Julia Helps To Bridge The Gap Between User and Creator

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You might have heard about Julia, the language often praised for the C-like performance it can attain while keeping a clean syntax reminiscent of Python. In this blog post…
Oct 23, 2020
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