# Best Reference for teaching Julia to Data Scientists

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/best-reference-for-teaching-julia-to-data-scientists/65082>\
**Category:** Teaching & Outreach\
**Created:** [July 22, 2021, 3:08am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/best-reference-for-teaching-julia-to-data-scientists/65082 "2021-07-22T03:08:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![daler6](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/daler6/32/13930_2.png) [@daler6](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/daler6)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2021, 3:08am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/best-reference-for-teaching-julia-to-data-scientists/65082/1 "2021-07-22T03:08:03Z")

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I will be teaching a semester long upper-level undergraduate course on Julia for Data Science this fall. Is there a particular text anyone would recommend I use with my course?

Sincerely, Dale S. Rothman

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**Author:** ![brenhinkeller](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/brenhinkeller/32/36648_2.png) [@brenhinkeller](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/brenhinkeller)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2021, 3:24am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/best-reference-for-teaching-julia-to-data-scientists/65082/2 "2021-07-22T03:24:02Z")

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I used a mix of “Think Julia” plus selections from Boyd and Vandenberghe’s VMLS and Gelman’s BDA3 (no Julia in it, but still good) for a quarter-length course, it seemed to work out

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**Author:** ![brenhinkeller](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/brenhinkeller/32/36648_2.png) [@brenhinkeller](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/brenhinkeller)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2021, 3:24am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/best-reference-for-teaching-julia-to-data-scientists/65082/3 "2021-07-22T03:24:45Z")

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There may be other good options since then though. “Statistics with Julia: Fundamentals for Data Science, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence” could be worth checking out

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**Author:** ![Storopoli](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/storopoli/32/209278_2.png) [@Storopoli](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Storopoli)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2021, 8:18am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/best-reference-for-teaching-julia-to-data-scientists/65082/4 "2021-07-22T08:18:44Z")

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There is a book in the making by me and @rikh att [https://juliadatascience.io](https://juliadatascience.io).

We will be finishing it in a couple of months.

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**Author:** ![daler6](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/daler6/32/13930_2.png) [@daler6](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/daler6)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2021, 1:59pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/best-reference-for-teaching-julia-to-data-scientists/65082/5 "2021-07-22T13:59:23Z")

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Storopoli and @rikh,

I took a quick look at the book in the making. Do you consider Chapters 1-4 fairly complete? I could use those to start and continue with the new chapters as they are completed. I would also complement this with some of the material from the Julia for Data Science course by Huda Nassar, which is available at the JuliaAcademy.

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**Author:** ![Storopoli](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/storopoli/32/209278_2.png) [@Storopoli](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Storopoli)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2021, 3:29pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/best-reference-for-teaching-julia-to-data-scientists/65082/6 "2021-07-22T15:29:12Z")

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I think that Chapters 1-3 are mostly done. @rikh is finishing up the Chapter 4. And we will take a couple of months to finish the Data Viz chapters.

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**Author:** ![Storopoli](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/storopoli/32/209278_2.png) [@Storopoli](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Storopoli)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2021, 3:31pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/best-reference-for-teaching-julia-to-data-scientists/65082/7 "2021-07-22T15:31:14Z")

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Our intent is to leave the book free and open access online and launch a printed version with ISBN on [Amazon.com](http://Amazon.com).

The audience is not computer scientist but people that don’t have any sort of computing background and want to do data manipulation and data visualization in Julia.

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**Author:** ![rafael.guerra](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/rafael.guerra/32/216610_2.png) [@rafael.guerra](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/rafael.guerra)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2021, 9:27pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/best-reference-for-teaching-julia-to-data-scientists/65082/8 "2021-07-22T21:27:16Z")

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[“A Deep Introduction to Julia for Data Science and Scientific Computing”](https://ucidatascienceinitiative.github.io/IntroToJulia/) by Chris Rackauckas seems to have been prepared in late 2016, but could be a source of inspiration.

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**Author:** ![olumide.oyalola](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/olumide.oyalola/32/38110_2.png) [@olumide.oyalola](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/olumide.oyalola)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2021, 10:15pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/best-reference-for-teaching-julia-to-data-scientists/65082/9 "2021-07-22T22:15:13Z")

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I’m looking forward to this [Julia Data Science]. I already grabbed the pdf version available.