Next Generation Graduate program Lecture 01: introduction to probability

The notation in this lecture matches chapter 2 of Chris Bishop’s Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning.

This lecture was developed for CSIRO’s Data61 by Dan MacKinlay.

Usage

If you would like to generate all the animations used in this lecture, run the notebook NG_01_lecture.ipynb. If you would like to see the recommended exercises, start from the notebook NG_01_lecture.ipynb.

setup

A python environment sufficient to execute everything is may be constructed by

pip install -r requirements.txt

Internal branding requirements

• Headings : Montserrat - Google Fonts
• Body text : Open Sans - Google Fonts

Credit

• Person icon by thenounproject.com/asianson.design/
• shirt icon by thenounproject.com/robinsemilson/
• Newton icon by Anthony Bosshard
• Crystal ball icon by Fran Couto