Julia for MATLAB users club

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Additionally, I think there’s a lot of value in having a meta-package that re-exports everything needed to get a Matlab or SciPy-like experience. from scipy import * is a terrible software engineering practice, but that doesn’t make it any less useful for exploratory work. I went through the Matlab docs and came up with the rough list below; I don’t think everything there necessarily belongs in Batteries.jl, but it’s a start. I’m really not looking forward to resolving the swarm of namespace conflicts this’ll spit out.

Mathematics

Elementary math

  • Primes.jl
  • Combinatorics.jl
  • Polynomials.jl
  • DSP.jl
  • SpecialFunctions.jl
  • CoordinateTransformations.jl
  • SpecialMatrices.jl
  • MatrixDepot.jl
  • Base.MathConstants

Linear algebra

  • LinearAlgebra (stdlib)

Random numbers

  • Random (stdlib)

Interpolation

  • Interpolations.jl
  • Dierckx.jl
  • ScatteredInterpolation.jl

Optimization

  • Optim.jl
  • LsqFit.jl

Numerical integration and differential equations

  • DifferentialEquations.jl
  • QuadGK.jl
  • ApproxFun.jl

Fourier analysis and filtering

  • FFTW.jl
  • DSP.jl

Sparse matrices

  • SparseArrays (stdlib)
  • IterativeSolvers.jl

Graphs

  • LightGraphs.jl
  • GraphPlot.jl

Computational geometry

  • GeometricalPredicates.jl
  • VoronoiDelaunay.jl

Graphics

  • Plots.jl
  • Luxor.jl
  • Images.jl
  • ImageView.jl

Data import and analysis

Data import and export

Text files

  • DelimitedFiles (stdlib)
  • CSV.jl
  • CSVFiles.jl

Spreadsheets

  • Too many options! Need a performance shootout.
  • ExcelReaders.jl for raw arrays
  • ExcelFiles.jl for use with DataFrames
  • Taro.jl
  • XLSX.jl

Images

  • FileIO.jl
  • ImageMagick.jl

Scientific data

  • NetCDF.jl
  • HDF5.jl
  • FITSIO.jl

Audio and video

  • FileIO.jl
  • VideoIO.jl
  • Still missing a convenient, portable video-writing interface

Low-level IO: files, streams, TCP/IP

Web access

  • HTTP.jl
  • FTPClient.jl
  • SMTPClient.jl
  • JSON.jl

Serial port devices

  • SerialPorts.jl

Preprocessing data & descriptive statistics

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