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Jake Vanderplas - Statistics for Hackers - PyCon 2016.mp4

Jake Vanderplas's PyCon 2016 talk shows how sampling-based methods such as simulation, shuffling and bootstrapping make statistics intuitive. His pitch is that if you can write a for-loop, you can do statistics.

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Why HN readers recommended it

It is recommended to programmers who want to learn statistics through simulation rather than memorized formulas.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel
PyCon 2016
Topic
statistics for programmers
Format
talk
Level
intro
HN recommenders in dataset
3
HN mentions in dataset
4
Recommendation years in dataset
2017–2025

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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  • We're using this book for a "book club" at work. Doing 1 chapter every 2 weeks. Chapter 1 covers Jupyter, 2 covers numpy, 3 pandas, 4 matplotlib, and 5 machine learning. We just made it through the first 4 chapters and it lays a good …

    pixelmonkey on Hacker News · 2017-08
    In Python Data Science Handbook

  • You might enjoy this talk "statistics for hackers" (in case statistics is not included in your data science knowledge): [VIDEO] For structural beam analysis (ie, from mechanical and civil engineering) check out this textbook on the direct stiffness method: [LINK] Unfortunately, the accompanying code (MASTAN2) …

    auxym on Hacker News · 2020-06
    In Ask HN: Recommendations for applied engineering and math books for programmers?

  • >Being able to apply statistics is like having a secret superpower. I totally with this sentence. BUT If you ask for my opinion, merely knowing a list of statistical formulas is not very helpful. Most of the time, people don’t remember the underlying assumptions, so …

    armanboyaci on Hacker News · 2025-03
    In Statistical Formulas for Programmers (2013)

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