{"id":59,"date":"2015-05-29T18:15:04","date_gmt":"2015-05-29T18:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allendowney.com\/wp\/?p=59"},"modified":"2015-05-30T02:17:14","modified_gmt":"2015-05-30T02:17:14","slug":"bayesian-statistics-at-orbitz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.allendowney.com\/wp\/bayesian-statistics-at-orbitz\/","title":{"rendered":"Bayesian statistics at Orbitz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I was in Chicago for a full-day workshop on Bayesian statistics at Orbitz Worldwide. \u00a0In the morning I presented &#8220;Learning to Love Bayesian Statistics&#8221;, an overview of Bayesian approaches and my attempt to debunk the myths. \u00a0The attendees seemed interested, and asked great questions. \u00a0Their photographer was kind enough to share some photos from the event; here&#8217;s a shot from the discussion that broke out after the talk:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.allendowney.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/20150528-Orbitz-Downey-Session-0002.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-60\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allendowney.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/20150528-Orbitz-Downey-Session-0002-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"20150528-Orbitz-Downey Session-0002\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.allendowney.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/20150528-Orbitz-Downey-Session-0002-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.allendowney.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/20150528-Orbitz-Downey-Session-0002-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Later I presented a customized version of my workshop, &#8220;Bayesian Statistics Made Simple.&#8221; \u00a0Again, it was a great group of people with lots of excellent and challenging questions. \u00a0As always, it&#8217;s interesting for me to hear about the problems people are working on and to apply data science tools to new challenges.<\/p>\n<p>I was only in Chicago for 36 hours, but I got to walk around quite a bit, and enjoyed the city (and the perfect weather!).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.allendowney.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_2407.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-61\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allendowney.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_2407-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_2407\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.allendowney.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_2407-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.allendowney.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_2407-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I was in Chicago for a full-day workshop on Bayesian statistics at Orbitz Worldwide. \u00a0In the morning I presented &#8220;Learning to Love Bayesian Statistics&#8221;, an overview of Bayesian approaches and my attempt to debunk the myths. \u00a0The attendees seemed interested, and asked great questions. \u00a0Their photographer was kind enough to share some photos from &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.allendowney.com\/wp\/bayesian-statistics-at-orbitz\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bayesian statistics at Orbitz&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allendowney.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allendowney.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allendowney.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allendowney.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allendowney.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.allendowney.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64,"href":"https:\/\/www.allendowney.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions\/64"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allendowney.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allendowney.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allendowney.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}