Spring 2024 Schedule

Notes

See the group HackMD for notes from the Spring series.

Schedule

Date	Asynchronous content (we suggest reading OR watching)	In-session	Leader
1/19/2024	Ch. 1 The Golem of Prague Lecture 1: Science before statistics	Introductions Group setup and format Software setup Discuss the drawing of owls	Jessica, Renata
2/2/2024 Time change: Meet from 11-1 instead of 12-2!	Ch. 2 Small Worlds and Large Worlds Ch. 3 Sampling the Imaginary Lecture 2: The Garden of Forking Data	Code up Garden of Forking Data example Challenge problems here! Exercises in brms book sections 2 and 3	Jessica, Renata
2/16/2024	Ch. 4 Linear Models Lecture 3: Geocentric Models (skip to 19:00 if you are familiar with Gaussian distributions) Lecture 4: Lines and Curves	Challenge problems from McElreath’s course here Exercises in brms book Check pacing and set rest of schedule
3/1/2024	N/A	Demo (Jessica)
3/15/2024	Continue Ch 4.	Ch. 4 Demo (Val)
3/29/2024	Ch. 5 Many Variables and Spurious Waffles Ch. 6 The Haunted DAG and Causal Terror	Ch 6 Problems TBD
4/12/2024	Ch. 7 Ulysses’ Compass Ch. 8 Conditional Manatees	Ch. 7-8 Problems TBD
4/26/2024	Ch. 9 MCMC	Ch. 9 Problems Wrap-up and Planning