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Organizers#

Meenal Jhajharia

Meenal Jhajharia

Reshama Shaikh

Reshama Shaikh

Beryl Kanali

Beryl Kanali

Sandy Weng

Sandy Weng

Oriol Abril Pla

Oriol Abril Pla

Additionally, we thank Ravin Kumar (Volunteer), Austin Rochford (Speaker), Ricardo Vieira (Speaker), Sayam Kumar (Volunteer), Thomas Wiecki (Volunteer), Christian Luhmann (Volunteer) and NumFOCUS for their support.

About PyMC and Data Umbrella#

Data Umbrella is a global community for underrepresented persons in data science. It is a fiscally hosted project of Open Collective, a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit based in California, USA. Data Umbrella: organizes online speaker series on data science and open source, organizes sprints / hackathons, curates resources on inclusive practices. All levels are welcome, beginners and experts.

PyMC is a probabilistic programming package for Python that allows users to fit Bayesian models using a variety of numerical methods, most notably Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) and variational inference (VI). Its flexibility and extensibility make it applicable to a large suite of problems. PyMC is a non-profit project under NumFOCUS.