Julia for large scale geospatial analysis
Julia Tutorial BiDS2025
This is the website of the “Julia for large scale geospatial analysis” tutorial at the BiDS 2025 conference.
In this tutorial we will explore how to analyse raster data which is larger than RAM.
1 Preparation
To participate in the hands-on parts of the tutorial please install Julia on your device. We recommend to use the juliaup installer for julia.
You can install juliaup via the windows store or by executing
winget install julia -s msstoreTo install juliaup in Linux or Mac execute the following in a shell
curl -fsSL https://install.julialang.org | sh2 Schedule
| Time | Topic |
|---|---|
| 09:00 | Introduction to Julia |
| 09:30 | Julia Geo Ecosystem |
| 10:00 | Data Loading |
| 10:30 | Coffee Break |
| 10:50 | Data analysis |
| 11:10 | Hands-On Challenge |
This timeline is purely approximate and given for indication purpose only. We will adjust depending on the audience. There will be additional breaks (5 minutes) regularly and time for questions during the workshop.
3 Development Tools
We recommend VS Code with the Julia extension installed.
- Install VS code from Visual Studio Code
- Install the Julia extension: Search for “Julia” in extensions
Other options that we won’t use :
- Plot Notebooks (Interactive/reactive documents)
- Jupyter notebooks