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Best Data science & statistics videos, as recommended on Hacker News

53 videos about data science & statistics that Hacker News commenters keep recommending, mentioned between 2007 and 2026. Mostly talk, explainer, lecture. Channels that come up most: Veritasium, Enthought, TED, O'Reilly. Sorted by how consistently HN recommended them over the years.

The most recommended is A Better Default Colormap for Matplotlib | SciPy 2015 | Nathaniel Smith and Stéfan van der Walt: HN's go-to recommendation for colormap and color-perception questions; commenters call it funny, brief, clear and a favorite talk.

• talkA Better Default Colormap for Matplotlib | SciPy 2015 | Nathaniel Smith and Stéfan van der WaltEnthought · 15 HN recommenders · 2015–2026
• lectureDON'T PANIC — Hans Rosling showing the facts about populationGapminder Foundation · 8 HN recommenders · 2017–2021
• explainerIs Most Published Research Wrong?Veritasium · 8 HN recommenders · 2017–2025
• talkHow not to be ignorant about the world | Hans and Ola RoslingTED · 5 HN recommenders · 2015–2023
• talkI don't like notebooks.- Joel Grus (Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence)O'Reilly · 6 HN recommenders · 2018–2025
• demoVisiData Lightning Demo at PyCascades 2018Saul Pwanson · 6 HN recommenders · 2018–2025
• talkEmacs + org-mode + python in reproducible research; SciPy 2013 PresentationEnthought · 5 HN recommenders · 2014–2018
• talkI Like NotebooksJeremy Howard · 4 HN recommenders · 2020–2025
• talkInteractive notebooks ~ Pluto.jl | Fons van der Plas | JuliaCon 2020The Julia Programming Language · 6 HN recommenders · 2020–2021
• tutorialYou Suck at Excel - Joel Spolsky (Reupload)Cool Bug Facts · 7 HN recommenders · 2024–2026
• lectureMichael Stonebraker | Big Data is (at least) Four Different ProblemsMichigan Engineering · 5 HN recommenders · 2015–2024
• courseSpecial Topics - The Kalman Filter (1 of 55) What is a Kalman Filter?Michel van Biezen · 5 HN recommenders · 2017–2025
• talkBreakout Session Presented by Dan Robinson of Heap at PGConf Silicon Valley 2015Citus Data · 4 HN recommenders · 2016–2020
• interviewDemocrats Need to Face Why Trump Won | The Ezra Klein ShowThe Ezra Klein Show · 4 HN recommenders · 2025–2026
• talkKeynote: Begin...End?David Beazley · 3 HN recommenders · 2021–2024
• talk36C3 - BahnMining - Pünktlichkeit ist eine Zier - english translationmedia.ccc.de · 3 HN recommenders · 2020–2023
• comedyLeading Questions - Yes Prime MinisterLimeXd · 4 HN recommenders · 2012–2025
• talkSocial Physics: How Good Ideas Spread | Sandy Pentland | Talks at GoogleTalks at Google · 3 HN recommenders · 2015–2022
• talkHans Rosling: Debunking third-world myths with the best stats you've ever seenTED · 4 HN recommenders · 2011–2017
• talkKEYNOTE / Robert ErdmannPyCon US · 4 HN recommenders · 2021–2024
• explainerHow We’re Fooled By StatisticsVeritasium · 3 HN recommenders · 2014–2025
• talkJohn Rauser keynote: "Statistics Without the Agonizing Pain" -- Strata + Hadoop 2014O'Reilly · 3 HN recommenders · 2015–2025
• talkDuckDB – The SQLite for Analytics (Mark Raasveldt, CWI)CMU Database Group · 2 HN recommenders · 2020–2026
• commentaryWhat 40,000 Videos Tell Us About The Trending TabCoffee Break · 3 HN recommenders · 2019–2020
• podcastTravis Oliphant: NumPy, SciPy, Anaconda, Python & Scientific Programming | Lex Fridman Podcast #224Lex Fridman · 2 HN recommenders · 2021–2024
• talkThe Power of Big Data and Psychographics | 2016 Concordia Annual SummitConcordia · 4 HN recommenders · 2017–2026
• talkGoogle Developers Day US - Theorizing from DataGoogleDeveloperDay · 3 HN recommenders · 2007–2009
• lectureEfficient Bayesian inference with Hamiltonian Monte Carlo -- Michael Betancourt (Part 1)MLSS Iceland 2014 · 3 HN recommenders · 2017–2024
• lecturePeter Norvig - The Unreasonable Effectiveness of DataUBC Computer Science · 3 HN recommenders · 2012–2026
• explainerYou've (Likely) Been Playing The Game Of Life WrongVeritasium · 4 HN recommenders · 2025–2026
• talkMaking R run Fast - Jan VitekJohn O'Neill · 3 HN recommenders · 2017–2023
• talkJake Vanderplas - Statistics for Hackers - PyCon 2016.mp4PyCon 2016 · 3 HN recommenders · 2017–2025
• explainerDance p 3 Mar09Geoff Cumming · 2 HN recommenders · 2011–2015
• tutorialIntroduction to Julia - Part 1 | SciPy 2014 | David SandersEnthought · 3 HN recommenders · 2014–2015
• talkBahnMining - Pünktlichkeit ist eine Zier (David Kriesel)media.ccc.de · 2 HN recommenders · 2022–2026
• talkBringing the Unix Philosophy to Big Data by Bryan Cantrill: FutureStack13New Relic · 2 HN recommenders · 2014–2022
• explainerCambridge Ideas - Professor RiskCambridge University · 2 HN recommenders · 2013–2022
• talkWhat is the best diet for humans? | Eran Segal | TEDxRuppinTEDx Talks · 2 HN recommenders · 2018–2023
• commentaryNaive empiricism, terrorism & Ebola.N N Taleb's Probability Questions · 2 HN recommenders · 2017–2021
• explainerThe 100 Year Flood Is Not What You Think It Is (Maybe)Practical Engineering · 2 HN recommenders · 2017–2025
• explainerThe Bayesian TrapVeritasium · 2 HN recommenders · 2017–2024
• commentaryviolin plots should not existAngela Collier · 2 HN recommenders · 2023–2026
• explainerDo these scatter plots reveal fraudulent vote-switching in Michigan?Stand-up Maths · 4 HN recommenders · 2020–2021
• explainerWhy do Biden's votes not follow Benford's Law?Stand-up Maths · 2 HN recommenders · 2020–2024
• explainerProtecting Privacy with MATH (Collab with the Census)minutephysics · 2 HN recommenders · 2020–2022
• lectureClutching at Random Straws, Matt Parker | LMS Popular Lectures 2010London Mathematical Society · 2 HN recommenders · 2017–2024
• talkJonathan Diegelman - Modeling Spacecraft Separation Dynamics in JuliaThe Julia Programming Language · 2 HN recommenders · 2021–2023
• demoFoundry 2022 Operating System DemoPalantir · 2 HN recommenders · 2022–2026
• explainerSurvivor Bias2veritasium · 1 HN recommender · 2016–2022
• explainerCorrelation CAN Imply Causation! | Statistics Misconceptionsminutephysics · 1 HN recommender · 2017–2022
• musicTodd Snider - Statistician's Bluesewecylinder · 1 HN recommender · 2022–2026
• demoRed Bead Experiment with Dr. W. Edwards DemingThe Deming Institute · 1 HN recommender · 2016–2025
• interviewFreeman Dyson - Fermi's rejection of our work (94/157)Web of Stories - Life Stories of Remarkable People · 2 HN recommenders · 2024–2025