Analyze World Data Using Julia
Analyzing GDP, unionization, culture and many other properties of different countries using the Julia programming language.
7 min readJul 25, 2021
Got the basics of data-analysis down and want to move a bit further? If you are a complete beginner, I advice you to look at my earlier stories on data analysis and plotting in Julia:
- Plotting and Graph Terminology — What is a data frame or a data series?
- Ditch Excel and Use Julia Data Frames — Recreating common operations used in a spreadsheet using Julia. Loading data, inspecting the data and grouping it.
- Slicing and Dicing Pizza Data with Julia and Gadfly — Introduction to Julia Data Frames by playing around with pizza data and plotting it.
- Makie Bar Plots in Julia — How to stack and group bars in a plot.
If you read my articles, you may know that I am not just interested in technology but also in politics, economics and society. To understand different countries I like looking at statistics about them and analyzing it. In particular you might be interested in asking questions such as:
- Which country has been more economically successful?
- How has different world events or political changes affected economic…