Introduction to Probabilistic Programming with PyMC

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https://www.bigmarker.com/neo4j/Data-Umbrella-Webinar

## Time
9am PT / 12pm ET / 8pm EAT / 10:30 PM IST

## Speaker
Austin Rochford

## Talk Level
Intermediate

## Pre-reqs
Python, numpy, basic familiarity with Bayesian statistics

## Prep Work
No preparation is necessary.

## Resources
The talk will be posted as a Jupyter notebook here https://austinrochford.com/talks.html once it is finished.

## Event
In the last ten years, there have been a number of advancements in the study of Hamiltonian Monte Carlo and variational inference algorithms that have enabled effective Bayesian statistical computation for much more complicated models than were previously feasible. These algorithmic advancements have been accompanied by a number of open source probabilistic programming packages that make them accessible to the general engineering, statistics, and data science communities. PyMC is one such package written in Python and supported by NumFOCUS. This talk will give an introduction to probabilistic programming with PyMC, with a particular emphasis on the how open source probabilistic programming makes Bayesian inference algorithms near the frontier of academic research accessible to a wide audience.

## Speaker
Austin Rochford is the Chief Data Scientist at Kibo Commerce. He is a recovering mathematician and is passionate about math education, Bayesian statistics, and machine learning.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/austin-rochford/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/AustinRochford
GitHub: https://github.com/AustinRochford/

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