This repository contains materials for the WSL Julia Workshop 2023 Practical introduction to Julia for modelling and data analysis in biodiversity and earth sciences, held on the 24th and 27th of March 2023 at WSL Birmensdorf. It should contain useful resources and guidelines to curious ecologists and glaciologists who want to get an overview or get started with the Julia language. It also contains ideas of research projects related to biodiversity and earth sciences, to be conducted with Julia.
The repository is organized by days and sessions. Please refer to the Program section to navigate within the repo.
To follow the workshop materials, you need to have the following software installed on your computer:
- Julia
- Jupyter
Additionally, we recommend to use
- VSCode
as an IDE, together with the Julia extension.
Please refer to the installation instructions for further information on how to proceed.
To use the workshop materials, clone this repository to your local machine:
git clone https://github.com/vboussange/WSLJuliaWorkshop2023.gitHow you should read this program
- 🎤 : Talk
- 💻: Hands-on exercises
- 🎤💻: Interactive session
8:50 Arrival at Englersaal, WSL (ask at the reception if you don't know where that is)
9:00 - 10:30
- 🎤 Greetings to the Workshop (@Mauro and @Victor) 9:00-9:10
- 🎤 Overview of the Julia programming language (@Mauro) 9:10-9:30
- 🎤💻 Practical: your first lines of Julia code (@Mauro) 9:30-10:30
- Basic syntax and data types
- Control flow and conditional statements
10:30 - 11:00
11-12:30
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🎤 Why I like Julia (@Victor) 11:00-11:15
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Package and project management (@Victor) 11:15-11:45
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💻🎤 VS code workflow and remote development (@Victor) 11:45-12:30
- VSCode editor
- Remote development
12:30 - 13:30
13:30 - 15:00
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🎤 Overview of the ecosystem (@Mauro) 13:30-13:45
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🎤 💻
DataFrames, broadcasting, loading CSV (@Victor) 13:45-14:05 -
💻 Hands-on exercises 14:05-14:30
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🎤 💻 Plotting and visualisation (@Mauro) 14:30-14:45
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💻 Hands-on exercises continued 14:45-15:00
15:00 - 15:30
- 🎤 Why I like Julia (@Ludovic) 15:30-15:40
- 🎤 💻 Saving and loading data in Julia (@Mauro) -15:40-15:55
- 💻 Coding the game of life 15:55-17:00
17:00-🌙
The goal of this second-day workshop is to provide participants with an opportunity to deepen their knowledge of the Julia programming language through biodiversity and glaciology-related projects.
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🎤 💻 Geospatial data handling (@Mauro) 9:00-9:30
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🎤 💻 Performant Julia code and profiling (@Mauro) 9:30-10:00
- Introduction
- Hands-on exercises
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🎤 💻 Parallel computing (@Victor) 10:00-10:30
- Multithreading
- Multiprocessing
- Exercise: Parallelizing the Game of Life
10:30-11:00
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💻🎤Julia projects managements 11:00-11:30
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🎤 Interface with Python, R, MATLAB (@Victor) 11:30-12:00
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🎤 Track Introductions (@Victor and @Mauro) 12:00-12:30
- 💻 Project session 13:30-15:00
15:00-15:30
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🎤 Why I like Julia (@Ivan) 15:30-15:40
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💻 Project session 15:40-16:30
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🎤 Wrap-up and feedback 16:30 - 17:00
- Deep learning-based Species Distribution Model
- Constructing a benchmark of PiecewiseInference.jl against ApproxBayes.jl and Turing.jl
- Time series modelling
- Julia official list of tutorials
- Introduction to Julia, JuliaCon 2022, and the YouTube video (3 hours)
- Introductory Julia tutorial by Martin D. Maas
- Julia Workshop for Data Science
The workshop materials are based on numerous resources, which have been indicated in the different sections.
We thank WSL Biodiversity center, the Ecosystem and Landscape Evolution and The Laboratory of Hydraulics, Hydrology and Glaciology for supporting and funding this workshop.
If you have any questions or feedback, feel free to contact the main authors of this workshop, @vboussange and @mauro3. You can also create a pull request.