Julia wrapper for Kepler.gl

[jmboehm]

Hi all,

I thought I'd drop a quick note saying that I've developed a front-end to Kepler.gl (at this point still version 2.5.5) for the Julia language. Julia is a fast dynamically compiled language which is ideally suited for scientific computing. I love using Kepler.gl for quick visualizations of geodata, but I stuggle to integrate it into my scientific workflow (where all graphs need to be generated from code and need to be replicable). The interactive nature of Kepler.gl is great for tweaking maps to make them look nice, but in the end I need the code to re-create maps and png exports.

My Julia package, KeplerGL.jl, provides functions to create the map JSON of a Kepler.gl map and then renders it in an Electron window. The interface is pretty simple, have a look at the examples. At this point not all layer types are implemented, and there are probably plenty of bugs. The documentation is also still work in progress.

You can install the package by typing ] in the Julia REPL and then

] add https://github.com/jmboehm/KeplerGL.jl

Thanks everyone for their work on Kepler.gl!