Learn how Bayesian Statistics can be more powerful and interpretable than any other data modeling approach from Dr. Thomas Wiecki, a Core Developer of PyMC — the leading Bayesian software library for Python.
Thomas:
• Has been a Core Developer of PyMC for over eight years.
• Is Co-Founder and CEO of PyMC Labs, which solves commercial problems with Bayesian data models.
• Previously, he worked as VP Data Science at Quantopian Inc.
• Holds a PhD in Computational Neuroscience from Brown University.
Today’s episode is more on the technical side so will appeal primarily to practicing data scientists.
In this episode, Thomas details:
• What Bayesian statistics is.
• Why Bayesian statistics can be more powerful and interpretable than any other data modeling approach.
• How PyMC was developed and how it trains models so efficiently.
• Case studies of large-scale Bayesian stats applied commercially.
• The extra flexibility of *hierarchical* Bayesian models.
• His top resources for learning Bayesian stats yourself.
• How to build a successful company culture.
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Events and Sample Spaces
In this week's YouTube tutorial, I introduce the most fundamental atoms of probability theory: events and sample spaces. Enjoy 😀
We will publish a new video from my "Probability for Machine Learning" course to YouTube every Wednesday. Playlist is here.
More detail about my broader "ML Foundations" curriculum (which also covers subject areas like Linear Algebra, Calculus, Statistics, Computer Science) and all of the associated open-source code is available in GitHub here.
What Probability Theory Is
This week, we start digging into the actual, uh, theory of Probability Theory. I also highlight the field's relevance to Machine Learning and Statistics. Enjoy 😀
We will publish a new video from my "Probability for Machine Learning" course to YouTube every Wednesday. Playlist is here.
More detail about my broader "ML Foundations" curriculum (which also covers subject areas like Linear Algebra, Calculus, Statistics, Computer Science) and all of the associated open-source code is available in GitHub here.
A Brief History of Probability Theory
This week's YouTube video is a quick introduction to the fascinating history of Probability Theory. Next week, we'll actually start digging into Probability Theory, uh, theory 😉
We will publish a new video from my "Probability for Machine Learning" course to YouTube every Wednesday. Playlist is here.
More detail about my broader "ML Foundations" curriculum (which also covers subject areas like Linear Algebra, Calculus, Statistics, Computer Science) and all of the associated open-source code is available in GitHub here.
Probability & Information Theory — Subject 5 of Machine Learning Foundations
Last Wednesday, we released the final video of my Calculus course, so today we begin my all-new YouTube course on Probability and Information Theory. This first video is an orientation to the course curriculum, enjoy!
We will publish a new video from my "Probability for Machine Learning" course to YouTube every Wednesday. Playlist is here.
More detail about my broader "ML Foundations" curriculum (which also covers subject areas like Linear Algebra, Calculus, Statistics, Computer Science) and all of the associated open-source code is available in GitHub here.