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Published inNov 2016
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Dan Toomey
Dan Toomey
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Dan Toomey

Dan Toomey has been developing application software for over 20 years. He has worked in a variety of industries and companies, in roles from sole contributor to VP/CTO-level. For the last few years, he has been contracting for companies in the eastern Massachusetts area. Dan has been contracting under Dan Toomey Software Corp. Dan has also written R for Data Science, Jupyter for Data Sciences, and the Jupyter Cookbook, all with Packt.
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Julia limitations in Jupyter


I have written Julia scripts and accessed different Julia libraries without issue in Jupyter. I have not noticed any limitations on its use or any performance degradation. I imagine some aspects of Julia that are very screen dependent (such as using the Julia Webstack to build a website) may be hampered by conflicting uses of the same concept.

I have repeatedly seen updates being run when I am attempting to run a Julia script, as in the following screenshot. I am not sure why they decided to always update the underlying tool rather than use what is in play and have the user specify whether to update libraries:

I have also noticed that once a Julia notebook is opened, even though I have closed the page, it will still display Running on the home page. I don't recall seeing this behavior with the other script languages available.

Another issue has been trying to use a secured package in my script, for example, plotly. It appears to be a clean process to get credentials...

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Dan Toomey

Dan Toomey has been developing application software for over 20 years. He has worked in a variety of industries and companies, in roles from sole contributor to VP/CTO-level. For the last few years, he has been contracting for companies in the eastern Massachusetts area. Dan has been contracting under Dan Toomey Software Corp. Dan has also written R for Data Science, Jupyter for Data Sciences, and the Jupyter Cookbook, all with Packt.
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