One of the joys of working on free books is the chance to collaborate with people all over the world. The Python version of How to Think Like a Computer Scientist was translated by Jeff Elkner in 2000 (plus or minus), but I never met him in person until PyCon 2013! This year, I finally …
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Last day of Signals and Systems 2015
For the last day of Signals and Systems we had a design session where students and some visiting faculty made concept maps of the topics we covered this semester, then we redesigned the class, generating a lot of ideas for things we might do differently (better?) next time. We heard a lot of thoughtful suggestions, …
Statistics workshops at SciPy 2015
The tutorial schedule for SciPy2015 has been posted, and I am happy to announce that Chris Fonnesbeck and I are offering a two-session sequence on Computational Statistics. Here’s the description for my Computational Statistics I: Statistical inference is a fundamental tool in science and engineering, but it is often poorly understood. This tutorial uses computational …
PyCon 2015
I was at PyCon 2015 last week, where I taught my tutorial on Bayesian statistics again. My slides and the video are here. I also taught a new tutorial on Statistical Inference. The slides and video are here. Other fun things I did: Python trivia night with Brandon Rhodes, a book signing where I …