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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2 mo on HNCambridge Ideas - Professor Risk
2 mo on HNWhat is the best diet for humans? | Eran Segal | TEDxRuppin
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 HNDo these scatter plots reveal fraudulent vote-switching in Michigan?
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 HNJonathan Diegelman - Modeling Spacecraft Separation Dynamics in Julia
2 mo on HNFoundry 2022 Operating System Demo
1 mo on HNSurvivor Bias
1 mo on HNCorrelation CAN Imply Causation! | Statistics Misconceptions
1 mo on HNTodd Snider - Statistician's Blues
1 mo on HNRed Bead Experiment with Dr. W. Edwards Deming
1 mo on HNFreeman Dyson - Fermi's rejection of our work (94/157)
1 mo on HNWhy was Biden's win calculated to be ONE IN A QUADRILLION?
0 mo on HNFor and Against National Service | Yes, Prime Minister | Comedy Greats
0 mo on HN