Data science & statistics Videos Recommended on Hacker News (56)
Data science & statistics is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 56 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2007 and 2026 — 187 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.
Data science and applied statistics: data analysis, pandas, scientific Python, regression, A/B testing, causal inference, Bayesian methods, statistical misconceptions, big data, data engineering.
Why HN keeps sending people here — on A Better Default Colormap for Matplotlib | SciPy 2015 | Nathaniel Smith and Stéfan van der Walt: “This hilarious SciPy2015 talk[1] convinced me to switch to the Parula color scheme.” — an HN commenter, 2018.
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14 mo on HNA Better Default Colormap for Matplotlib | SciPy 2015 | Nathaniel Smith and Stéfan van der Walt
11 mo on HNDON'T PANIC — Hans Rosling showing the facts about population
8 mo on HNIs Most Published Research Wrong?
6 mo on HNHow not to be ignorant about the world | Hans and Ola Rosling
6 mo on HNI don't like notebooks.- Joel Grus (Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence)
6 mo on HNVisiData Lightning Demo at PyCascades 2018
6 mo on HNEmacs + org-mode + python in reproducible research; SciPy 2013 Presentation
5 mo on HNI Like Notebooks
4 mo on HNInteractive notebooks ~ Pluto.jl | Fons van der Plas | JuliaCon 2020
6 mo on HNYou Suck at Excel - Joel Spolsky (Reupload)
5 mo on HNMichael Stonebraker | Big Data is (at least) Four Different Problems
5 mo on HNSpecial Topics - The Kalman Filter (1 of 55) What is a Kalman Filter?
4 mo on HNKeynote: Begin...End?
4 mo on HNLeading Questions - Yes Prime Minister
3 mo on HNSocial Physics: How Good Ideas Spread | Sandy Pentland | Talks at Google
3 mo on HNKEYNOTE / Robert Erdmann
3 mo on HNHow We’re Fooled By Statistics
3 mo on HNJohn Rauser keynote: "Statistics Without the Agonizing Pain" -- Strata + Hadoop 2014
3 mo on HNDuckDB – The SQLite for Analytics (Mark Raasveldt, CWI)
3 mo on HNTravis Oliphant: NumPy, SciPy, Anaconda, Python & Scientific Programming | Lex Fridman Podcast #224
3 mo on HNGoogle Developers Day US - Theorizing from Data
3 mo on HNEfficient Bayesian inference with Hamiltonian Monte Carlo -- Michael Betancourt (Part 1)
3 mo on HNPeter Norvig - The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data
3 mo on HNYou've (Likely) Been Playing The Game Of Life Wrong
3 mo on HNMaking R run Fast - Jan Vitek
3 mo on HNJake Vanderplas - Statistics for Hackers - PyCon 2016.mp4
2 mo on HNDance p 3 Mar09
2 mo on HNCambridge Ideas - Professor Risk
2 mo on HNNaive empiricism, terrorism & Ebola.
2 mo on HNThe 100 Year Flood Is Not What You Think It Is (Maybe)
2 mo on HNThe Bayesian Trap
2 mo on HNviolin plots should not exist
2 mo on HNWhy do Biden's votes not follow Benford's Law?
2 mo on HNProtecting Privacy with MATH (Collab with the Census)
2 mo on HNClutching at Random Straws, Matt Parker | LMS Popular Lectures 2010
2 mo on HN