# New Julia book, oriented towards Machine Learning

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/new-julia-book-oriented-towards-machine-learning/40319>\
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**Tags:** books\
**Created:** [May 28, 2020, 7:01am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/new-julia-book-oriented-towards-machine-learning/40319 "2020-05-28T07:01:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![zvoulgaris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ac91a4/32.png) [@zvoulgaris](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/zvoulgaris)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2020, 7:01am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/new-julia-book-oriented-towards-machine-learning/40319/1 "2020-05-28T07:01:03Z")

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Hello everyone,

As per Andrew’s suggestion, I’m posting this here, so that it can be added to the [Get started with Julia](http://julialang.org/learning/) part of the website.

Book title: Julia for Machine Learning  
Author: Zacharias Voulgaris  
Publisher: Technics Publications  
URL: [Julia – Technics Publications](https://technicspub.com/julia/)  
Promo code (25% discount): JuliaJune  
Format: print and PDF  
Reader level: Intermediate

Some knowledge of Julia is expected to follow the book easily. However, some chapters can be read and understood even without a solid understanding of the language.

Cheers!

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**Author:** ![xiaodai](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/xiaodai/32/15937_2.png) [@xiaodai](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/xiaodai)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2020, 7:37am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/new-julia-book-oriented-towards-machine-learning/40319/2 "2020-05-28T07:37:50Z")

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I bought the julia for data science book. I felt that it covered alot of things by writing Julia code from scratch. IIRC glm was like that in Julia for data science.

Does this book cover package or focus on lower level details?

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**Author:** ![zvoulgaris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ac91a4/32.png) [@zvoulgaris](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/zvoulgaris)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2020, 7:47am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/new-julia-book-oriented-towards-machine-learning/40319/3 "2020-05-28T07:47:17Z")

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This book does cover packages, particularly packages related to ML. Also, it provides context and additional knowledge on ML that, IMO, is equally important. There is some lo-level parts, like in the chapter where a simple ML model is built from scratch, but these parts are few. Cheers

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**Author:** ![tlienart](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/tlienart/32/7640_2.png) [@tlienart](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/tlienart)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2020, 8:06am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/new-julia-book-oriented-towards-machine-learning/40319/4 "2020-05-28T08:06:00Z")

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> [@zvoulgaris](#):
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> I’m posting this here, so that it can be added to the [Get started with Julia](http://julialang.org/learning/) part of the website.

~~You can do this yourself very easily [by editing the relevant file](https://github.com/JuliaLang/www.julialang.org/edit/master/learning/index.md) (I guess this would be an entry for the Books section around the one of Tom Kwong’s), this will open a PR which will be merged quickly~~

done.

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**Author:** ![zvoulgaris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ac91a4/32.png) [@zvoulgaris](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/zvoulgaris)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2020, 8:22am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/new-julia-book-oriented-towards-machine-learning/40319/5 "2020-05-28T08:22:36Z")

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Many thanks, tlienart!