Learning Bayesian Statistics

What do neurodegenerative diseases, gerrymandering and ecological inference all have in common? Well, they can all be studied with Bayesian methods — and that’s exactly what Karin Knudson is doing. In this episode, Karin will share with us the vital and essential work she does to understand aspects of neurodegenerative diseases. She’ll also tell us more about computational neuroscience and Dirichl...

How can you use Bayesian tools and optimize your models in industry? What are the best ways to communicate and visualize your models with non-technical and executive people? And what are the most common pitfalls? In this episode, Colin Carroll will tell us how he did all that in finance and the airline industry. He’ll also share with us what the future of probabilistic programming looks like to hi...

When speaking about Bayesian statistics, we often hear about « probabilistic programming » — but what is it? Which languages and libraries allow you to program probabilistically? When is Stan, PyMC, Pyro or any other probabilistic programming language most appropriate for your project? And when should you even use Bayesian libraries instead of non-bayesian tools, like Statsmodels or Scikit-learn?...

When are Bayesian methods most useful? Conversely, when should you NOT use them? How do you teach them? What are the most important skills to pick-up when learning Bayes? And what are the most difficult topics, the ones you should maybe save for later? In this episode, you’ll hear Chris Fonnesbeck answer these questions from the perspective of marine biology and sports analytics. Chris is indeed t...

What do you get when you put a physicist, a biologist and a data scientist in the same body? Well, you’re about to find out…  In this episode you’ll meet Osvaldo Martin. Osvaldo is a researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council in Argentina and is notably the author of the book Bayesian Analysis with Python, whose second edition was published in December 2018.  He also teac...

Are you a researcher or data scientist / analyst / ninja? Do you want to learn Bayesian inference, stay up to date or simply want to understand what Bayesian inference is?  Well I'm just like you! When I started learning Bayesian methods, I really wished there were a podcast out there that could introduce me to the methods, the projects and the people who make all that possible. So I created "Lear...