###An Introduction to Probabilistic Programming in Python ####Pycon 2015, Bangalore, India

Tutors

Dorai Thodla ([email protected]) | iMorph Inc
Ronojoy Adhikari ([email protected] ) | The Institute of Mathematical Sciences

Dear participants

Thank you for your interest in the "Reasoning under uncertainty" workshop.

This is to provide a heads up on the toolchain we will be using for the hands-on parts of the workshop. Please do have these installed on your computing device - it will save us time during the workshop.

• Anaconda distribution from Continuum Analytics
• Lea
• Pomegranate
• OpenPNL

Please install the latest versions from the repositories rather than precompiled versions from packages. The older versions do not have all the needed functionality.

If there are any difficulties in installing OpenPNL, please open an issue at https://github.com/ValueFromData/PyPNL - one of us will help you resolve the problem.

We will make PyPNL, a Python probabilistic inference and learning framework that we are developing, available for download and installation in the next few days. This will be used extensively in the workshop.

In addition, material relevant to the workshop is available at

• https://github.com/ronojoy/pylearn
• https://speakerdeck.com/ronojoy/data-science-probability-theory
• https://speakerdeck.com/ronojoy/data-science-theory
• https://speakerdeck.com/ronojoy/probabilistic-programming-in-python
• https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhkiT_RYTEU1mkJHBUiA2Ze56h6z1uZgj

My co-tutor, Dorai Thodla, and I look forward to meeting you on Friday, 2nd October.

An outline of the workshop, with additional reading material, is available as a markdown file.