smishr/juliacon2021-statisticswithjuliafromthegroundup

3 Hour Workshop for JuliaCon 2021

Statistics with Julia From the Ground Up

This is a workshop prepared for JuliaCon2021. See the abstract.

In order to run the workshop make sure that you have Julia executable installed (it was tested under Julia 1.6.0 and 1.6.2).

One way to run the workshop is to run as follows (you may also view the installation video):

1. Clone this workshop repository to a local folder on your computer (or download the zip file).
2. Start Julia.
3. If you don't have IJulia installed install it via (] puts you in package manager mode):

] 
add IJulia

Now hit backspace to exit the package manager.

4. Start Jupyter Notebook with:

using IJulia
notebook()

The first time you run notebook you may be asked if to install Conda. Recommended to hit y.

5. In the Jupyter envionrment that opens in your web browser, navigate to the correct folder which you downloaded, open the Workshop.ipynb file, and run the first few cells up to the section Why Julia?. These cells will install the needed packages in the enviornment for the workshop. This will take considerable time but only needs to be run once. Note the line with using RCall is commented out. If you have R installed on your system you may uncomment it (delete #uncomment if using R: ).

You can also consider:

• A version of the repository with all output or look at it in nbviewer.

Some key links:

• JuliCon 2021
• YouTube link to the workshop.
• A nearly parallel workshop on DataFrames.jl
• Statistics with Julia: Fundamentals for Data Science, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence