Welcome to the Julia workshop for Data Science

This repository contains the material for the "Julia workshop for Data Science" taught at the ISMB 2022 conference on July 10th, 2022.

• Welcome to the Julia workshop for Data Science!
• The goal for the workshop is to highlight the main features that make Julia an attractive option for data science programmers
• The workshop is intended for any data scientist with experience in R and/or python who is interested in learning the attractive features of Julia for Data Science. No knowledge of Julia is required.
• Workshop materials in the github repository julia-workshop

Learning Objectives for Tutorial

At the end of the tutorial, participants will be able to:

• Identify the main features that make Julia an attractive language for Data Science
• Set up a Julia environment to run their data analysis
• Efficiently handle datasets (even across different languages) through Tables.jl and Arrow.jl
• Fit (generalized) linear mixed models with MixedModels.jl
• Communicate across languages (Julia, R, python)

Intended audience and level: The tutorial is intended for any data scientist with experience in R and/or python who is interested in learning the attractive features of Julia for Data Science. No knowledge of Julia is required.

Schedule

Time	Topic	Presenter
11:00 - 11:30	Session 1: Get Started with Julia	Claudia Solis-Lemus
11:30 - 12:30	Session 2a: Data Tables and Arrow files	Douglas Bates
12:30 - 1:00	Session 2b: Interval Overlap	Douglas Bates
1:00 - 2:00	Lunch break
2:00 - 3:00	Session 3: Model fitting
3:00 - 4:00	Session 4: Hands-on exercise	Sam Ozminkowski and Bella Wu
4:00 - 4:15	Coffee break
4:15 - 5:00	Presentation of selected participants' scripts and Q&A
5:00 - 5:30	Session 5: Other important Data Science tools	Claudia Solis-Lemus
5:30 - 6:00	Session 6: Conclusions and questions	Claudia Solis-Lemus

In preparation for the workshop

Participants are required to follow the next steps before the day of the workshop:

1. Git clone the workshop repository: git clone https://github.com/crsl4/julia-workshop.git

2. Install Julia. The recommended option is to use JuliaUp:

• Windows: winget install julia -s msstore

• Mac and Linux: curl -fsSL https://install.julialang.org | sh

• Homebrew users: brew install juliaup

After JuliaUp is installed, you can install different Julia versions with:

juliaup add release  ## installs release version
juliaup add rc     ## installs rc version
juliaup st           ## status of julia versions installed
juliaup default rc ## making beta version the default

3. Choose a dataset along with a script to analyze it written in another language (R or python) as we will spend part of the workshop translating participants' scripts to Julia.

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Previous versions of workshops

• This "WID Julia workshop" release contains the notes of the Julia workshop taught at the WID Data Science Research Bazaar on February 10th, 2021.
• The "CIMAT workshop" release contains the notes of the Julia workshop taught at CIMAT in October 26-27, 2020.