Remember that Bayesian course you signed up for a while ago?

Well guess what:
It's finally happening and I couldn't be more excited. It took longer than I would have liked to get to this point, but I was busy building PyMC Labs (www.pymc-labs.io) – our awesome Bayesian consultancy.

There are quite a few developments which I wanted to update you on:

  1. The course will be made jointly with the amazingly talented Alex Andorra and Ravin Kumar. I've known both of them for many years through PyMC3 as well as PyMC Labs. They are expert communicators and share my passion of making Bayesian modeling as accessible as possible. With them on the team we will ship something better sooner, and the course will be more engaging overall. I'll let them individually say hi to you:

Alex:

Hey y'all! By day, I'm a Bayesian modeler at the PyMC Labs consultancy. By night, I don't (yet) fight crime, but I'm an open-source enthusiast and core contributor to the awesome Python packages PyMC and ArviZ.

I'm the host and creator of the one and only podcast dedicated to Bayesian inference, “Learning Bayesian Statistics”, with over 11k monthly listeners. I interview practitioners of all fields about why and how they use Bayesian statistics, and help you apply these methods in your modeling workflow – so yeah, I'm very excited about this course!

An always-learning statistician, I love building models and studying elections and human behavior. I also love Nutella a bit too much, but I don't like talking about it – I prefer eating it.

Ravin:

Hi all. I'm an applied statistician that uses Bayesian concepts in industry. Some of the companies that I've worked for used Bayesian modeling and PyMC3 at, including innovative organizations like SpaceX and sweetgreen. Funnily enough I didn't learn Bayesian statistics in college or a PhD, I picked it up entirely during my time in industry. I'm thrilled to create this course for other folks who are looking to use Bayesian theory but don't want to go to grad school to get started.

  1. The course will be released on Podia. This is an excellent platform for hosting this type of content significantly reducing the technical burden on us and making the whole experience smoother for you.
  2. Each video will be fairly short: Rather than have you sit through 2h lectures, each video will contain just one or two main points and be 5-20 minutes long. This will just make it more fun and engaging.
  3. We now have a pretty solid outline of the contents and as stated before it will be targeted at beginners. Future courses will cover more advanced topics.
  4. We will be releasing the course in pieces, one module at a time. As we release more content the price of the course will go up, but once youre in you'll get all future modules for free. This way you get to start sooner and cheaper!
  5. The plan is to release the inital set of modules this year, with a rolling release of additional modules as they come. We don't have a fixed schedule, this is because we are more focused on getting the content right, rather than rushing to meet a deadline.
  6. We have found a video and audio editor, bought professional audio equipment, have recorded some content, and are happy with the quality. So now it's really just down to hashing it out.

So, thanks for bearing with us, we are chomping at the bit to get this out to you.

We also run a questionnaire. Please do not hesitate to respond to this email with any questions.

Best,
Thomas, Alex & Ravin

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