Allen Downey
@AllenDowney
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Author of Probably Overthinking It, Think Python, and Think Bayes. Emeritus Prof at Olin College, consultant with PyMC Labs.
Boston, MA
Joined April 2013
My copy of Probably Overthinking It has arrived!. It should be shipping soon. If you would like to pre-order, you can get 30% from University of Chicago Press. Use the code UCPNEW.
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Starting August 5, PyMC Labs is running a new workshop on Bayesian modeling in PyMC -- and I'm one of the instructors. If you want to get started with Bayesian stats, this is your chance! See below for details.
🚨 We’re opening our private Bayesian modeling workshops to the public — for the first time. After this course, you won’t just build better models. You’ll know how to explain them, to technical and non-technical stakeholders alike. 📎
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At PyData Boston last night, I announced a new project: Think Linear Algebra!. This blog post explains the idea, including a sample chapter and a terrible AI-generated cover.
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RT @BBCPolitics: "This is not a partisan issue, everybody can recognise a society where so many of our boys and men are struggling is not g….
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"Unless you’re an extreme power user, asking AI questions every day is still a rounding error on your total electricity footprint.".
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My Think Stats hard copy has arrived!. Here's what's new in the third edition:.
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Time Series Analysis with StatsModels. Video from my PyData Global tutorial is up now:.
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Think Stats 3e is on its way to the printer!. (And available to pre-order). Here's the new cover, with a suspicious-looking archerfish. Blog post with the details:
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Anyone who has read Probably Overthinking It will instantly know the explanation of this "paradox". From.
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This looks interesting, but every time they say math, they should say statistics or data science. The vast majority of the math people study in school is irrelevant to the topics they are talking about.
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At PyMC Labs I'm working with a group developing synthetic consumers for marketing research. We just published a white paper with an overview of work in this space -- and we have a blog post coming next week with some experimental results. @pymc_labs .
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This kind of research is possible because federal agencies collect important data and make it available. It is money well spent!.
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If circumstances prevent them from having the children they want, these trends might change. But it looks like they just want fewer.
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People born in the 1990s and 2000s have fewer children than previous generations at the same ages -- new data from NSFG.
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I'm teaching a Bayesian workshop today where we'll discuss one of my favorite topics.
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The schedule for PyCon US 2025 is live!. On May 15, I'm offering a new tutorial called "Analyzing Survey Data with Pandas and StatsModels". We'll explore data from the General Social Survey, run regression models, and visualize results.
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Nate Silver on Berkson's Paradox. If you like this, you might like my Talk@Google:
Yes, you can be both a genius and a dumbass. I call this "spiky intelligence". In fact, this is pretty common, especially among high-achieving people. Because human intelligence is multidimensional and because of something called Berkson's paradox.
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