The Talk Stats Video Club

[SiBorg]

After reading about the book club, I thought that a video club might be equally interesting.

I found these two videos very good and well worth a watch:

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There are quite a few other interesting-looking videos on that site too.

Has anyone else got any videos to share?

[SiBorg]

This one is only 3 minutes long and should please anybody with an interest in statistics. I think this guy has got it spot on...

http://www.ted.com/talks/arthur_benjamin_s_formula_for_changing_math_education.html

[bryangoodrich]

I like this idea. I'll try to remember to participate if I come across good videos when I'm bored at work lol

I watched a lot of TED talks. I like that Donnelly one. Good intuitive approach to talking about probability that people generally don't get, even students of probability!

[bryangoodrich]

DATA VISUALIZATION (Thanks to Quark for the YouTube tag!)

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[trinker]

I'm into making linguistic analysis meet statistics. here's a ted talk out of MIT that does so in a brilliant way (very multimodal):
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/deb_roy_the_birth_of_a_word.html

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[trinker]

We'd discussed this before but it seems appropriate to repost here. This is a video and accompanying paper on motivation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc
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The paper this video cites: LINK (http://www.bos.frb.org/economic/wp/wp2005/wp0511.pdf)

[bryangoodrich]

I love the RSA videos. I know I posted the link here (chatbox) and on facebook. I guess it could be appropriate to leave here. This one is from Sir Ken Robinson on changing how we view our educational paradigms. In particular, we need to consider that the way we have to learn today is different than how our educational system was initially designed around industry (set times, bells to signal change of tasks, learning in a set time frame within a set class of students, with set standards for what is appropriate). I think a lot of the ideas can mesh with the above video.

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[bryangoodrich]

This one I found in the related links to Sir Ken Robinson's TED talk (the 2006 one, I believe, which I recommend both! They're great). Just watching this video makes me want to go be a math teacher! lol

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[bryangoodrich]

I'm loving this guy's lectures. I'm still blown away that it's a political science class, because my friend's experience in masters of political science (international relations) was that the quantitative stuff was a joke. This guy's teaching me stats better than my econometric classes! lol Each of his lectures for this class are long, but he covers a lot of advanced details I never saw in my introductory classes. Very good explication. I especially like the geometric interpretation in his first lecture (Lecture "3" for week 3). The lecture below is covering some specific hypothesis testing stuff, and he begins with some nice examples of size vs power. The R examples help.

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[bryangoodrich]

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Well, if you ever wanted to play around with Lisp, you need only start up Emacs! It actually makes a lot of sense, if you've ever at least looked at a Lisp interpreter. ****, Emacs is amazing!

[Dason]

I thought everybody knew that emacs had a lisp interpreter built in! You silly non-emacs users have a lot to learn...

[vinux]

I thought everybody knew that emacs had a lisp interpreter built in! You silly non-emacs users have a lot to learn...

I guess everybody know the lisp interpreter part. For me the first part was learning the sloccount. I never knew something like this existed.

[bryangoodrich]

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Lots of good education videos posted here. I'm glad about that. This is another treat. Have you checked out coursera (https://www.coursera.org/) yet?

[SiBorg]

Thanks to everyone for making this thread so interesting. Can anyone let me know how to embed the video in the post rather than just the link as they look far more appealing that way! My first post looks a bit drab compared to the rest....!

[Dason]

The last youtube video posted used this for their code:


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So basically you grab the id from the youtube url and put it inside the youtube tags.

[vinux]

Old one. Turning powerful stats into art
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[trinker]

Video on Python/iPython (Including knitr like capabilities):

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[TheEcologist]

Hee Vinux,

You once posted a (long) youtube talk about R.
I lost the link...

Could you help?

Thanks!

TE

[vinux]

You probably referring this one.
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Hee Vinux,

You once posted a (long) youtube talk about R.
I lost the link...

Could you help?

Thanks!

TE

[Dason]

And if that's the one you were referring to just know that Dirk and Romain have worked on Rcpp A LOT and it's ridiculously easily to get started with this stuff now.

[spunky]

i know this is not stats or R related, but this is something that i watched once many years ago (at 4am) and really moved me. it didn't just move me because of the significance of what Andrew Wiles did, but because of the passion that he had for it. i especially remember the part when he starts crying because i myself remember feeling something like that when i started to grasp, at least momentarily, the beauty and the harmony that exists within some of the theorems we become familiar with over the years...


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[trinker]

@Spunky watched all 5 parts. Thanks for sharing.

[Dason]

Fermat's Last Theorem? I found an elementary proof of it once and tried to put it as my signature here... but alas the signature field was too small it.

[vinux]

And if that's the one you were referring to just know that Dirk and Romain have worked on Rcpp A LOT and it's ridiculously easily to get started with this stuff now.

Since Hadley shown interest in Rcpp, I am sure Rcpp is going to much more simpler than ever.

@TE, check this link if you working in Rcpp. Tutorial may be useful.
http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2012/11/hadleys-guide-to-high-performance-r-with-rcpp.html

[bugman]

@Spunky watched all 5 parts. Thanks for sharing.


I posted a link to this quite some time ago...

http://www.talkstats.com/showthread.php/25885-Fermats-Last-Theorem?highlight=

But hey.

[TheEcologist]

Since Hadley shown interest in Rcpp, I am sure Rcpp is going to much more simpler than ever.

@TE, check this link if you working in Rcpp. Tutorial may be useful.
http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2012/11/hadleys-guide-to-high-performance-r-with-rcpp.html

That was the talk vinux! Thanks a million :)

[TheEcologist]

I posted a link to this quite some time ago...

http://www.talkstats.com/showthread.php/25885-Fermats-Last-Theorem?highlight=

But hey.

I just gave you the credit you deserve ;)

[bryangoodrich]

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A UCTV lecture from UC Berkeley earlier this year. I haven't watched the whole thing, but it's about statistics, so I figured some might want to see if it's worth watching! I'll give it a go later when I need to kill some time lol