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Jake Vanderplas - Statistics for Hackers - PyCon 2016.mp4

PyCon 2016 · talk · Watch on YouTube

Data science & statisticsPython, Ruby & scripting languages

What it is

Jake Vanderplas's PyCon 2016 talk shows how sampling-based methods such as simulation, shuffling and bootstrapping make statistics intuitive. His pitch is that if you can write a for-loop, you can do statistics.

Why Hacker News recommends it

It is recommended to programmers who want to learn statistics through simulation rather than memorized formulas.

  • 3 people recommended it
  • 3 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2017, last 2025

What HN commenters said

  1. “the author's excellent YouTube presentations at PyCon and PyData”

    Starting talk on statistics for programmers, from the same author.

    pixelmonkey, 2017-08 · Recommendation · in “Python Data Science Handbook”

  2. “You might enjoy this talk”

    Statistics for programmers talk.

    auxym, 2020-06 · Recommendation · in “Ask HN: Recommendations for applied engineering and math books for programmers?”

  3. “The presenters advocate using simulation/bootstrapping/shuffling methods instead of memorizing formulas.”

    Teaches statistics via simulation and shuffling instead of memorizing formulas.

    armanboyaci, 2025-03 · Recommendation · in “Statistical Formulas for Programmers (2013)”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: bootstrapping, resampling, python, simulation, hypothesis testing

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