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I make StatQuest videos and sing more than I should. Contact:

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Joshua Starmer
1 year
I can't believe it's been a year since I released The StatQuest Illustrated Guide to Machine Learning. Thanks to everyone who purchased a copy to support what I do and StatQuest!!! BAM!!! (and if you want a copy, you can get one here: )
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It's been almost a year and a half, but I've finally finished writing and editing The StatQuest Illustrated Guide to Machine Learning. It should be available in just a few weeks!!! #BAM
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I just finished writing the chapter on Gradient Descent for my upcoming book, The StatQuest Illustrated Guide to Machine Learning. There's still lots to do, but it feels good to take a step forward. #BAM
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The StatQuest Illustrated Guide To Machine Learning is here!!! TRIPLE BAM!!! PDF - Paperback - Kindle eBook - #StatQuest #BAM
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India! The wait is over! The StatQuest Illustrated Guide to Machine Learning is available! Printed in India? BAM! Full color and high quality? Double BAM!! Low price? TRIPLE BAM!!!
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Just finished Chapter 11, Neural Networks, for The StatQuest Illustrated Guide to Machine Learning (due early 2022). I'm almost done!!! #BAM !!!
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Today I finished the chapter on Regularization for The StatQuest Illustrated Guide to Machine Learning (due early 2022). This book is starting to come together!!! #BAM
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Joshua Starmer
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Just finished writing the chapter on Fundamental Concepts in Statistics For ML for my upcoming book The StatQuest Illustrated Guide to Machine Learning. Feels good to be done and excited to move on!!! #BAM
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I finished a draft of The StatQuest Illustrated Guide to Machine Learning and am celebrating by recording a StatQuest about DBSCAN, the first StatQuest in 4 months. It's good to be back! #BAM !
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I'll be the first to admit that my understanding of how to code neural networks is pretty spotty. So today I'm filling in the gaps with @rasbt 's excellent book, Machine Learning with PyTorch and Scikit-Learn. #BAM p.s. Who's picture is on the cover?
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Joshua Starmer
3 years
Help! I'm writing a book, "The StatQuest Illustrated Guide to Machine Learning", and it, like my videos and study guides, is mostly pictures and more like graphic novel than a normal "words" book. Who (and how) should I ask to publish???
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A few weeks ago I lectured at Harvard Medical School on t-SNE and UMAP. I made a special PDF study guide for the students, and now you can have it, for FREE, too!!! BAM!!!
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Just finished Chapter 9, Classification and Regression Trees, for The StatQuest Illustrated Guide to Machine Learning (due early 2022). Now on to the chapter on Neural Networks!!! #BAM !!!
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Joshua Starmer
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When I left academics to do StatQuest full time, I thought I'd never again have to deal with The Dreaded Reviewer #3 . So much for wishful thinking... :(
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Joshua Starmer
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In Miami for the @gridai_ offsite, having a great time hanging out with coworker @rasbt and his best selling new book, Machine Learning with PyTorch and Scikit-Learn. #DOULBEBAM
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Joshua Starmer
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Hooray!!! My StatQuest youtube channel crossed the 900,000 subscriber milestone over the weekend! TRIPLE BAM!!! To celebrate, here are my top 8 videos with over 1 million views! 🧵 1/9
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Joshua Starmer
2 years
I've been asked to define Neural Network. Here's a draft (in 3 parts): Neural Network - A long time ago some people tried to create an algorithm that mimicked the biology of the brain and called it a Neural Network. They failed miserably.
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Joshua Starmer
3 years
Hooray!!! For the first time ever, a StatQuest has been seen over a million times! BAM!!! #StatQuest #BAM
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Big news in StatQuest land...I am now doing StatQuest as my full time job! Wish me luck! #BAM
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Joshua Starmer
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A lot of people say you should find a job that you are passionate about. If you can do that, great! Alternatively, you can find something that is important and needs to be done. This may not start out as a passion, but it will become one.
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Joshua Starmer
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One day only! StatQuest live and in person at the University of Georgia. I’ll be guest teaching the capstone statistics class. #BAM
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Joshua Starmer
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Want to get started programming Neural Networks, but don't want to have to set up a new environment or deal with any hassle whatsoever? Check out this @LightningAI Studio and get started with PyTorch right now! BAM!
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Joshua Starmer
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Norm and 'Squatch are back!!! Today I'm starting my next book, The StatQuest Illustrated Guide to Neural Networks and Deep Learning (with PyTorch + Lightning). BAM!!!
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Joshua Starmer
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Tomorrow I'm teaching at Harvard (I won't let the snow stop me!), but tonight I'm eating dinner with my friend @tangming2005 BAM!
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Joshua Starmer
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Want to learn how to code Long, Short-Term Memory neural networks in PyTorch but don't want to download anything or install a bunch of packages? Check out this @LightningAI Studio that I created and get started right now! #BAM !
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Joshua Starmer
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As of today I have >950K youtube subscribers and 1M is just around the corner! That means I need a new StatQuest t-shirt design! Help me by posting your ideas below. There will be a vote and the winner gets $100 and a StatQuest shirt!!! BAM!!!
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Joshua Starmer
2 years
I can't believe it! @KenJee_DS and I finally met in person in North Carolina. Great times with one of my long time heroes in data science. #BAM ! #66daysofdata
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This is the start of a bunch of StatQuests on Neural Networks in PyTorch Lightning. They have given me access to some of the best coders in the world, so the tutorials will be awesome!!! #BAM !
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Lightning AI ⚡️
2 years
Triple BAM!!! 💥 Tensors for Neural Networks, Clearly Explained by @joshuastarmer ⚡️ Sponsored by PyTorch Lightning & @gridai_
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Joshua Starmer
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By the end of this month I hope to have my first PyTorch and PyTorch Lightning tutorials up. So far so good!!!
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Lightning AI ⚡️
2 years
Thanks to our awesome community, Lightning surpassed 1 MILLION downloads in a month!! 🤯 ⚡️ 🌟 GitHub:
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Joshua Starmer
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Today I am proud to announce that I'm partnering with to bring you StatQuests and tutorials that bridge the gap between doing machine learning on your laptop and doing it in the cloud. #BAM @gridai_
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My friends @LearneyAI made this awesome flowchart of all the StatQuest videos. I love it because you can easily pick the general topic you are interested in and then see all of the relevant videos and their dependencies. #BAM
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Joshua Starmer
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I had great time delivering a keynote at @UofIllinois and the Reflections|Projections conference! BAM!!!
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Joshua Starmer
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If you want The StatQuest Illustrated Guide to Machine Learning, but it's not available in your area...Know that I'm working as hard as I can to solve this problem but it will take at least a month, maybe two. This is a long time, but I appreciate your patience!!! #BAM
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Finally!!! Norm and StatSquatch are on a t-shirt!!! Thanks to @enderesting for this awesome design!!! You can get your own in various colors and sizes here: #DOUBLEBAM
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Joshua Starmer
10 months
I know this diagram of self-attention for Transformers is a mess, but don't worry, we'll go through it one step at a time soon. I can't wait! (and thanks for your patience!)
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Joshua Starmer
2 years
If you, or someone you love, speaks Spanish or Portuguese, my latest video (and, hopefully, all future videos) has Spanish and Portuguese overdubs. Just click on the "Gear" icon, then select "Audio Track", and then select the language of your choice. BAM!
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Joshua Starmer
6 months
Coding neural networks shouldn't be something you're dreading...here's how to use PyTorch and Lightning to code Word Embedding! Brought to you by @LightningAI !!!
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Joshua Starmer
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To be continued... #Quadruplebam
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Joshua Starmer
3 years
Day 1 of #66DaysOfData Diving into CatBoost, which converts categorical predictors into continuous predictors instead of using one-hot encoding. These are my very raw notes so far...
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Day 58 of #66DaysOfData Day 11 of UMAP. Here's the main algorithm behind t-SNE, LargeVis and UMAP, with a few notes on key differences. BAM! (1 of 13 panels!!!!)
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2 years
Technically, a Neural Network is just a Big Fancy Squiggle Fitting Machine. Give it some data, and a Neural Network will fit a squiggle to it. Don’t believe me? Check out the ‘Quest:
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Joshua Starmer
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OMG!!! THANK YOU @ChelseaParlett !!! I love your distribution stickers! TRIPLE BAM!!!
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Joshua Starmer
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I had a great time last night with the Illinois Data Science Club. The highlight was fine-tuning an LLM and then having it tell me (correctly) why the club is awesome! BAM!
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I had a great time on Monday giving a seminar for NC State's Genetics and Genomics Academy @NCStateGGAGrad and then hanging out with the students. DOUBLE BAM!
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Australia! The wait is over! You can now get the paperback version of The StatQuest Illustrated Guide to Machine Learning from Lulu: BAM!
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Joshua Starmer
2 years
The other day, someone asked me why we use Entropy (or Gini) for decision trees instead of just the raw counts of each class. Good question! And my friend @rasbt (Sebastian Raschka) has an awesome answer: #BAM
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Joshua Starmer
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Recently, a lot of people have asked me about the most important data science concept for business. I always say "communication", and one the best ways to learn it is from @GutmanDataHead 's book, "Becoming a Data Head"
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Joshua Starmer
2 years
URGENT NEWS FOR INDIA!!! If you bought a copy of my book in India and it is black and white, please return it to Amazon. I'm really sorry that this happened. It's my worst nightmare come true. I sincerely apologize for any inconvenience that this problem has caused.
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Joshua Starmer
4 years
Last night I dreamt about the Poisson Distribution. Does this mean I need a vacation? #BAM ?
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Joshua Starmer
3 months
Had a great time teaching at Harvard with @lucapinello and @m_hemberg BAM!
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Joshua Starmer
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@prmshra The good news is that I have a video on linear algebra coming out soon that should help cool things down. I also have a few songs about it. Bam.
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Joshua Starmer
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You can now get my book in Spanish! ¡¡¡TRIPLE BAM!!!
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BAM! Shroff distribute my book in India and they do a great job.
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Shroff Publishers
14 days
The StatQuest Illustrated Guide to Machine Learning by @joshuastarmer It takes the #MachineLearning algorithms, no matter how complicated, and breaks them down into small, bite-sized pieces that are easy to understand. Order now #shroffpublishers
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Joshua Starmer
3 years
My father taught at IIT-Madras when I was young. Wednesday, Oct 6, I'll give a (virtual) seminar there on the lessons he taught me and how I apply them. BAM! 10am New York, 7:30pm IST
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I'm at a SAS conference learning how to make a Shiny App in R. This is awesome! TRIPLE BAM!!! #SASGF #SASVisionary
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Will I ever remember the name of the company that makes RStudio?
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Joshua Starmer
3 years
Day 2 of #66DaysOfData and day 2 of CatBoost. CatBoost has a unique boosting strategy (called Ordered Boosting) that separates the residuals associated with a row of training data from the trees that were built with that row of training data. These are my very raw notes so far...
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Joshua Starmer
2 years
If you have time tomorrow, I'll be doing a live stream about Target Encoding (without Leakage) at 11am, New York time (4pm London, 5pm Europe, 8:00pm Pakistan, 8:30pm India)
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Joshua Starmer
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I saw this magazine cover and did a double take. I've used Shiny and Tidy for data science apps, but never to clean my home! :) @hadleywickham #BAM
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3 years
Most people know me by my silly songs at the start of each StatQuest, but I also record "serious" songs and just released a new album. BAM!!!
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This is awesome! BAM!
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Scott DeGeest, MBA PhD 📊🏳️‍🌈
2 years
My little brother: "dude, why are you up so late watching data science videos?" Me: "no no no, it's @joshuastarmer . He says Bam. It's fine." Brother (five min later): "Oh. He says BAM. That's kinda slick." #DataScience #datafam #ds4a #data
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Swapping books with Joe Reis & @doctorhousley . Their latest is The Fundamentals of Data Engineering. Can't wait to dive in! BAM!
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Joshua Starmer
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This coming Tuesday, April 16th, I'll be giving a workshop on how to code and fine-tune an LLM like ChatGPT using @LightningAI Studios at @UNC with the UNC AI Club. This is free and open to the public! BAM!!!
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Day 20 of #66DaysOfData Day 3 of Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs). Here's a simple example of a working RNN along with some main ideas, bam!!! (NOTE: There are 7 parts of this tweet!) #BAM
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I can't wait till the workshop on coding and fine-tuning LLMs tomorrow @UNC ! BAM! This is free and open to the public.
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Are there any ML or Data Science terms that you have a hard time remembering? If so, what are they?
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Day 3 of #66DaysOfData and day 3 of CatBoost. CatBoost does not use normal Decision Trees. Instead it uses Oblivious Decision Trees (ODTs). These are weaker learners (and boosting is all about weak learners) and very fast from a computation side of things. #BAM !
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Does anyone know how to report plagiarism to a journal? Figure 3c in this article uses images from my video on RPKM vs TPM and but doesn't cite the video.
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Joshua Starmer
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I just finished recording a song every month for the past 100 months. Thanks to @aaronkeck and @WCHLChapelboro for helping me celebrate! Here's the Live and Local interview:
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Day 11 of #66DaysOfData Day 1 of Shapley Values. One step towards explaining machine learning results is calculating Shapley Values. This is the most basic example I could think of (psst! tomorrow we'll build on it). #BAM
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Joshua Starmer
2 years
Sometimes 'Squatch and Norm just make me groan. Dad jokes + Statistics = 🤦‍♂️
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Joshua Starmer
5 years
Thank you for watching. Thank you for liking. Thank you for sharing. And most of all, thank you for subscribing. Thank you! #statquest #triplebam
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Day 17 of #66DaysOfData Day 2 of NLP. I found a great explanation of how Word2vec works by @JayAlammar : His website is full of awesome stuff, so I may just be reading it for the next few days.
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Day 5 of #66daysofdata and day 1 of LightGBM. If you have a ton of data, building a tree with it all will take a long time. LightGBM reduces the amount of data used to build each tree using Gradient-based One-Side Sampling (GOSS) to speed things up! #BAM
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Joshua Starmer
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@kareem_carr More than calculus, I'd say that trying to teach statistics without every step illustrated leads to a lot of bad statistics classes, where the rules seem really cryptic and the formulas don't make any sense.
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Joshua Starmer
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I woke up this morning at 4am because I couldn't wait to finish deriving all of math underlying XGBoost. Now I can't wait to make it a StatQuest!!! #Bam
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