Part 2: CmdStanPy Sprint Night (@WeWork FiDi) [w/ NYC WiMLDS]

Join a sprint session for Python developers to work on CmdStanPy (all levels welcome)! We’ll be contributing to an open source package that helps pythonistas seamlessly integrate Stan (a probabilistic programming language) into their pipelines.

We have tasks for developers at all levels. If you have never contributed to open source before, we have things for you to do/learn as well: come, contribute to the docs and/or close a pull request!

CmdStanPy allows pythonistas to add the power of Bayesian inference to their toolkit via a small set of functions and objects designed to use minimal memory and parallelize computation. Given a dataset and a statistical model written as a Stan program, CmdStanPy compiles the model, runs Stan’s MCMC sampler (via CmdStan) to obtain a sample from the posterior, and assembles this sample as a numpy nd-array or pandas.dataframe for downstream visualization and analysis.

This event is the second of a two-part series on CmdStanPy. The first event was a primer on executing Bayesian Workflows using CmdStanPy. The details for this can be found here: https://www.meetup.com/NYC-PyLadies/events/262999739/. (It is not necessary to have attended the first event to be able to contribute to the Sprint.)

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AGENDA

6:30pm - 7:00pm: networking
7:00pm - 7:30pm: intro on contributing to OS using Github
7:30pm - 8:30pm: sprint session
8:30pm - 9:00pm: wrap up / networking

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SPEAKER BIO

Mitzi Morris is a member of the Stan development team and the developer of CmdStanPy.

She has worked as a software engineer in both academia and industry. She started out writing tools for Natural Language Processing in C and Java, then moved to genomics and biomedical informatics where she built pipelines for high-throughput sequencing electronic medical records data, all of which led to an increased interest in doing more and better statistics. She has been a Stan contributor since 2014 and joined the Stan team at Columbia in 2017.

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ABOUT WeWork

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INFO

MISSION: http://www.pyladies.com
CODE OF CONDUCT: http://www.pyladies.com/CodeOfConduct/

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WHAT TO BRING

• Your laptop
• A government-issued ID for getting into the building