Julia for High-Performance Data Analysis (Online)
4 Feb 2025 • 09:00 – 7 Feb 2025 • 12:00 CET
General introduction
Welcome to the online workshop on Julia for High-Performance Data Analysis on Feb. 4-7 (2025). Julia is a modern high-level programming language that is fast (on par with traditional HPC languages like Fortran and C) and relatively easy to write like Python or Matlab. It thus solves the two-language problem, i.e. when prototype code in a high-level language needs to be combined with or rewritten in a lower-level language to improve performance. Although Julia is a general-purpose language, many of its features are particularly useful for numerical scientific computation, and a wide range of both domain-specific and general libraries are available for statistics, machine learning, and numerical modeling.
Who is this workshop for?
This lesson material is targeted toward students, researchers and developers who:
- are already familiar with one or more programming languages (Julia, Python, R, C/C++, Fortran, Matlab, …)
- need to analyze big data or perform computationally demanding modeling or analysis
- want to develop high-performance data science software but prefer to stay within a productive high-level language.
Prerequisites
- Experience in one or more programming languages.
- Familiarity with basic concepts in linear algebra and machine learning.
- Basic experience with working in a terminal is also beneficial.
- Participants are expected to install Julia, VSCode and Zoom before the workshop starts
Key takeaways
Julia for High-Performance Data Analysis starts by briefly covering the basics of Julia’s syntax and features, and then introduce methods and libraries which are useful for writing high-performance code for modern HPC systems. After attending the workshop, you will:
- Understand how to analyze large datasets efficiently in Julia using statistical methods.
- Be comfortable with Julia’s syntax, in-built package manager, and development tools.
- Understand core language features like its type system, multiple dispatch, and composability.
- Be able to write your own Julia packages from scratch.
- Know how to perform various linear algebra analysis on datasets.
- Be productive in analyzing and visualizing large datasets in Julia using dataframes and visualization packages.
- Be familiar with several Julia libraries for visualisation and machine learning.
Agenda
| Time | Contents | |
|---|---|---|
| Day 1 (Feb. 4) | Welcome | |
| 09:10-09:20 | Motivation | |
| 09:20-09:50 | Julia syntax | |
| 09:50-10:00 | Break | |
| 10:00-10:50 | Special Julia features | |
| 10:50-11:00 | Break | |
| 11:00-11:50 | Developing in Julia | |
| 11:50-12:00 | Package ecosystem | |
| Day 2 (Feb. 5) | 09:00-09:20 | Motivation (Julia for data analysis) |
| 09:20-09:50 | Data formats and data frames | |
| 09:50-10:00 | Break | |
| 10:00-10:50 | Data formats and data frames | |
| 10:50-11:00 | Break | |
| 11:00-11:50 | Linear algebra | |
| Day 3 (Feb. 6) | 09:00-09:50 | Machine learning |
| 09:50-10:00 | Break | |
| 10:00-10:50 | Clustering and Classification | |
| 10:50-11:00 | Break | |
| 11:00-11:50 | Deep learning | |
| Day 4 (Feb. 7) | 09:00-09:50 | Linear regression |
| 09:50-10:00 | Break | |
| 10:00-10:50 | Non-linear regression | |
| 10:50-11:00 | Break | |
| 11:00-11:50 | Non-linear regression and Fourier methods | |
| 11:50-12:00 | Conclusions and outlook |
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Regulations
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This training is for users who live and work in the European Union or a country associated with Horizon 2020. You can read more about the countries associated with Horizon2020 HERE.
Contact
For questions regarding this workshop or general questions about ENNCS training events, please contact training@enccs.se
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This project has received funding from the European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (JU) under grant agreement No 951732. The JU receives support from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme and its associated countries .