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I am a Professor at Olin College and the author of a series of books including Think Python, Think Bayes, and Think Stats, all published by O'Reilly Media and available under free licenses from Green Tea Press.
I write a blog called Probably Overthinking It, which is mostly about probability and statistics.
Here is my original web page, which still has most of my research material.
Recent Classes
Spring 2015
Fall 2014
Computational Bayesian Statistics
Spring 2014
Fall 2013
Spring 2013
Computational Bayesian Statistics
Fall 2012
Spring 2012
Spring 2011
Fall 2010
Modeling and Simulation of the Physical World
Slides and talks
In May 2013 I gave a talk for PyCon Taiwan:
In February 2013 I gave a talk for the UCES Award Program at SIAM CSE. Here are my slides:
On October 12, 2012, I gave a talk at Williams College about Complexity, Computation and Science. Here are the slides:
On June 9, 2012, I led a session at FooCamp called "Fix College". Some of the materials are here.
On May 23, 2012 I gave a talk at Google's Cambridge office about my book, Think Complexity. Here are the slides:
And here's the talk itself:
At PyCon 2012 I taught a tutorial on Bayesian statistics. It is based on Chapters 5 and 8 of my book, Think Stats. Here is the web page I created for the tutorial. And here, courtesy of PyCon and pyvideo.org, is the video. It's three hours long, so get comfortable!
Here's a screencap of me magically deriving Bayes's Theorem:
On October 4 I am doing a webcast with O'Reilly Media; the subject is statistical hypothesis testing. I make the argument that if you know how to program, you can do hypothesis testing with simple simulations. Here is the announcement and my slides.
Here are my slides for a talk at Google, September 19, 2011:
Notes for a talk at the Boston Python Meetup.
In September 2011 I presented my book, Think Stats, as part of the Authors@Google series. Here are my slides:
Here are the slides for a talk I gave at Olin College and at Notre Dame Academy in Hingham MA. If you read the speaker notes, you can see what I was planning to say.
Here's a talk I gave at Northeastern that they kindly put on YouTube