Inspired by this excellent blog post by Vik of Dataquest.io fame: https://www.dataquest.io/blog/python-vs-r/
I decided to see if I could do all of those operations with Julia as practice. I used Julia v0.4.0 although there is deprecated syntax used in a few places.
You can view this notebook within Github or download and open using the IJulia package while running Julia: using IJulia notebook()