This week I am visiting the University College at Twente, which is in the process of creating a new program in Technology and Liberal Arts & Sciences (ATLAS). When I arrived yesterday, they were just putting the new sign on the building: Today I am teaching two workshops, one based on the Joy and Beauty …
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SciPy 2015 talks posted
The talks and posters for SciPy 2015 have been posted, and I’m happy to report that two of them are mine. I’ll be presenting Will Millennials Ever Get Married? Survival Analysis and Marriage Data Recent studies report that an increasing share of Americans have never married, which suggests that current young adults might marry at …
Meeting Jeff and Chuck at PyCon 2015
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 …
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, …
Projects
This page contains short descriptions of projects I have worked on, in reverse chronological order, roughly. Religious affiliation, education and Internet use Allen B. Downey (Submitted on 21 Mar 2014) Using data from the General Social Survey, we measure the effect of education and Internet use on religious affiliation. We find that Internet use is …
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 …
Books
My books are available from Green Tea Press.
Classes
Spring 2022 Data Science Fall 2021 Data Structures and Algorithms Complexity Science Fall 2020 Data Science at Ashesi University (no public course page) Spring 2020 Data Science Software Systems Fall 2019 Complexity Science STAT250 at Harvard Spring 2019 Data Science Software Systems Fall 2018 Modeling and Simulation Computational Bayesian Statistics Spring 2018 Software Systems Fall 2017 …
Allen Downey
I am a curriculum designer at Brilliant and Professor Emeritus at Olin College, and the author of Think Python, Think Bayes, Think Stats and other books related to computer science and data science. I write a blog about Bayesian statistics and related topics called Probably Overthinking It. And I am working on a book, also called …