Bill Engels
Bill Engels is a Principal Data Scientist with PyMC Labs, with 10 years of experience in industry and an MS in Statistics from Portland State University. He enjoys all phases of data analysis and is particularly interested in Bayesian modeling and Gaussian processes.
Session
11-07
16:05
45min
Actually using GPs in practice with PyMC
Bill Engels
This talk will be about the Gaussian process (GP) functionality in the open source Python package PyMC, and how to use GPs effectively for models in the real world. The goal will be to bridge the (wide!) gap between theory and practice, using an example from baseball. By the end of the talk you'll know what's possible in PyMC and how to avoid common pitfalls.
Room 313