A Clojure for Machine Learning , together with Clojure Data Analysis Cookbook , are two compelling books for people interested in data mining and reasoning. It is also worth mentioning that the amount of publications not dedicated to Clojure itself but how to effectively use it in real world problems is growing. Therefore Clojure for Machine Learning is not a suitable book for newcomers to the language. It will probably not be a good starting point for people completely new to machine learning as well. However basic Clojure knowledge and rough understanding of core concepts in machine learning will be enough to enjoy this book. Book goes through pretty much all standard machine learning topics, including: linear regression, various classification algorithms, clustering, artificial neural networks and support vector machines. Author also briefly covers large scale machine learning on top off Hadoop and Map Reduce. Too bad other more modern BigData solutions were not represented. Thi