# A data science course for Clojurians -- are you interested?
**URL:** https://clojureverse.org/t/a-data-science-course-for-clojurians-are-you-interested/9074
**Category:** Community Building
**Tags:** data-science
**Created:** [July 5, 2022, 1:14pm UTC](https://clojureverse.org/t/a-data-science-course-for-clojurians-are-you-interested/9074 "2022-07-05T13:14:44Z")
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### Author:  [@daslu](https://clojureverse.org/u/daslu)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2022, 1:14pm UTC](https://clojureverse.org/t/a-data-science-course-for-clojurians-are-you-interested/9074/1 "2022-07-05T13:14:44Z")
Edit, 2022-14-07: here is the emerging [course plan](https://scicloj.github.io/docs/community/groups/ds4clj/), following your feedback at public and private comments, here and on Reddit.
These days at the [Scicloj](https://scicloj.github.io/) organizing team we are rethinking some of the current ongoing groups and meetings.
One idea we are considering is having regular meetings for teaching data science to Clojurians.
❓ Do you find that potentially useful?
❓ Do you think you could commit to monthly meetings and to studying in between?
✍ Please write to me – as a public or private comment – about your background and interests.
The goal would be to:
- provide Clojurians with basic theory, practices, libraries, and tools needed for common data science tasks;
- as a byproduct, create learning resources (video, notes);
- and thus prepare ourselves to also teach people who are new to Clojure;
- and also, help Clojurians to become active contributors to the emerging stack.
Tentative format:
- relatively structured & didactic
- monthly regular classes
- possible practice meetings in between
- studying through individual / small-group projects
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### Author:  [@kiramclean](https://clojureverse.org/u/kiramclean)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2022, 4:18pm UTC](https://clojureverse.org/t/a-data-science-course-for-clojurians-are-you-interested/9074/2 "2022-07-05T16:18:40Z")
This is a cool idea! Seems like a great way to merge the data science people who are new to Clojure with the Clojure developers who are new to data science.
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### Author:  [@didibus](https://clojureverse.org/u/didibus)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2022, 5:21pm UTC](https://clojureverse.org/t/a-data-science-course-for-clojurians-are-you-interested/9074/3 "2022-07-05T17:21:16Z")
I’d like that. Been wanting to become more proficient with data science.
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### Author:  [@mooreisenough](https://clojureverse.org/u/mooreisenough)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2022, 9:21pm UTC](https://clojureverse.org/t/a-data-science-course-for-clojurians-are-you-interested/9074/4 "2022-07-05T21:21:20Z")
I am new to both Clojure and Data Science, however if these lesson were combined with homework/challenges (with possible solutions) between monthly mtgs, that would be beneficial
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### Author:  [@clpe04](https://clojureverse.org/u/clpe04)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2022, 11:31am UTC](https://clojureverse.org/t/a-data-science-course-for-clojurians-are-you-interested/9074/5 "2022-07-06T11:31:19Z")
Sound like a really cool idea. I have previously done some lightweight data science with Clojure and would really love to hone my skills in this field.
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### Author:  [@IvanH](https://clojureverse.org/u/IvanH)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2022, 11:35am UTC](https://clojureverse.org/t/a-data-science-course-for-clojurians-are-you-interested/9074/6 "2022-07-06T11:35:38Z")
I think this is a great initiative. I always wanted to get into data science. I recently started to work with Clojure as my primary language, so this would be very cool.
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### Author:  [@daslu](https://clojureverse.org/u/daslu)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2022, 11:23am UTC](https://clojureverse.org/t/a-data-science-course-for-clojurians-are-you-interested/9074/7 "2022-07-07T11:23:35Z")
Thanks for all these responses in public and private messages.
For reference, I’m linking here to the Reddit discussion too:
> **[r/Clojure - A data science course for Clojurians – are you interested?](https://www.reddit.com/r/Clojure/comments/vsr7qn/a_data_science_course_for_clojurians_are_you/)**
>
> Bis jetzt 44 Votes und 13 Kommentare auf Reddit
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### Author:  [@maxxcan](https://clojureverse.org/u/maxxcan)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2022, 5:43pm UTC](https://clojureverse.org/t/a-data-science-course-for-clojurians-are-you-interested/9074/8 "2022-07-07T17:43:53Z")
Im very interesting in that. I started to do the same in Spanish but maybe will be better join efforts in English and later translate it to another languages
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### Author:  [@daslu](https://clojureverse.org/u/daslu)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2022, 5:49pm UTC](https://clojureverse.org/t/a-data-science-course-for-clojurians-are-you-interested/9074/9 "2022-07-07T17:49:20Z")
@maxxcan sounds wonderful.
Or maybe we could do both in parallel?
Let us chat about it if you wish.
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### Author:  [@jumar](https://clojureverse.org/u/jumar)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2022, 4:33am UTC](https://clojureverse.org/t/a-data-science-course-for-clojurians-are-you-interested/9074/10 "2022-07-08T04:33:22Z")
An excellent idea. I’ve been trying to get into data science stuff for a long time but never managed to do it.
In my current job, this is becoming increasingly important and would be very interesting for me to be able to compare Clojure-based data science tools to more traditional Python stuff, etc.
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### Author:  [@Paul\_Iannazzo](https://clojureverse.org/u/Paul_Iannazzo)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2022, 6:03am UTC](https://clojureverse.org/t/a-data-science-course-for-clojurians-are-you-interested/9074/11 "2022-07-08T06:03:06Z")
im interesting
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### Author:  [@pradesigner](https://clojureverse.org/u/pradesigner)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2022, 5:52am UTC](https://clojureverse.org/t/a-data-science-course-for-clojurians-are-you-interested/9074/12 "2022-07-09T05:52:07Z")
hi daniel!
i would like this very much!
i’ve already been using your and generateme’s work tablecloth for several things and was heading towards datascience eventually, so the timing is perfect!
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### Author:  [@mindaslab](https://clojureverse.org/u/mindaslab)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2022, 6:50am UTC](https://clojureverse.org/t/a-data-science-course-for-clojurians-are-you-interested/9074/13 "2022-07-09T06:50:52Z")
I would love to join such a course.
I think a course where people can understand math for Data Science from its basic concepts, then implementing it in code, seeing it working on data in action will be a powerful curriculum.
Then people can be thought how to harness the power of GPU’s etc as a add-on.
May be advanced version of a DS course could teach about using Cloure with Spark, Kafka etc where students will get the idea / potential to solve problems involving TB’s of Data.
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### Author:  [@Clojurenoob](https://clojureverse.org/u/Clojurenoob)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2022, 10:46am UTC](https://clojureverse.org/t/a-data-science-course-for-clojurians-are-you-interested/9074/14 "2022-07-10T10:46:30Z")
I’m most definitely interested in learning!
I started a data science course a while back with Python but found it a bit of a struggle at the time as it mostly required using Linux which I wasn’t familiar with at the time.
Now I’ve been using Clojure with WSL for Linux on Windows so would be ready to have another go at it; this time in my preferred language 😃
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### Author:  [@maxxcan](https://clojureverse.org/u/maxxcan)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2022, 2:19pm UTC](https://clojureverse.org/t/a-data-science-course-for-clojurians-are-you-interested/9074/15 "2022-07-10T14:19:50Z")
OK when and where do we talk?
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### Author:  [@Jose\_Javier\_Blanco\_R](https://clojureverse.org/u/Jose_Javier_Blanco_R)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2022, 4:24pm UTC](https://clojureverse.org/t/a-data-science-course-for-clojurians-are-you-interested/9074/16 "2022-07-10T16:24:28Z")
That would be great! I would love to learn data science and teach others data science and Clojure.
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### Author:  [@daslu](https://clojureverse.org/u/daslu)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2022, 5:38pm UTC](https://clojureverse.org/t/a-data-science-course-for-clojurians-are-you-interested/9074/17 "2022-07-10T17:38:30Z")
Thanks, everybody, for the kind responses.
@maxxcan @kiramclean @mindaslab and anybody who wished to be involved:
We will organize a meeting to brainstorm the course plan, probably on the weekend of July 22-24.
If you have any preferred times, please write to me.
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### Author:  [@daslu](https://clojureverse.org/u/daslu)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2022, 6:44am UTC](https://clojureverse.org/t/a-data-science-course-for-clojurians-are-you-interested/9074/18 "2022-07-12T06:44:50Z")
@maxxcan @mindaslab and anybody,
would you like to meet on
[Sunday, July 24th, 16:00 UTC](https://time.is/1600_24_July_2022_in_UTC)
to brainstorm the course plan?
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### Author:  [@Jim\_Newton](https://clojureverse.org/u/Jim_Newton)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2022, 9:08am UTC](https://clojureverse.org/t/a-data-science-course-for-clojurians-are-you-interested/9074/19 "2022-07-12T09:08:59Z")
yes, interested.
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### Author:  [@mindaslab](https://clojureverse.org/u/mindaslab)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2022, 2:50pm UTC](https://clojureverse.org/t/a-data-science-course-for-clojurians-are-you-interested/9074/20 "2022-07-12T14:50:15Z")
Sure. Let’s meet.
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