Data Science & Statistics Videos Hacker News Recommends

Data science & statistics videos on HackerTube: the talks, lectures and explainers Hacker News commenters keep sharing, covering data analysis, pandas, scientific Python, regression, A/B testing, causal inference, Bayesian methods, statistical misconceptions, big data, data engineering.

53 videos · ranked by HN recommendations · showing 1–48

Most recommended data science & statistics videos

The ones HN returns to most often when a thread turns to this topic.

talk#23

A Better Default Colormap for Matplotlib | SciPy 2015 | Nathaniel Smith and Stéfan van der Walt

Enthought

“This hilarious SciPy2015 talk[1] convinced me to switch to the Parula color scheme.”

15 HN recommenders · 2015–2026

lecture#73

DON'T PANIC — Hans Rosling showing the facts about population

Gapminder Foundation

“I can highly recommend this lecture by the late Hans Rosling”

8 HN recommenders · 2017–2021

explainer#205

Is Most Published Research Wrong?

Veritasium

“This video is a good primer”

8 HN recommenders · 2017–2025

talk#404

How not to be ignorant about the world | Hans and Ola Rosling

TED

“I promise it is not a waste of your time.”

5 HN recommenders · 2015–2023

talk#450

I don't like notebooks.- Joel Grus (Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence)

O'Reilly

“The parent article links this great talk that goes into more detail than the parent post and is much easier to understand”

6 HN recommenders · 2018–2025

demo#471

VisiData Lightning Demo at PyCascades 2018

Saul Pwanson

“visdata is pretty mind-blowing...at least, that's how i felt when i saw the demo the first time”

6 HN recommenders · 2018–2025

talk#520

Emacs + org-mode + python in reproducible research; SciPy 2013 Presentation

Enthought

“on Emacs + org-mode + python in reproducible research is worth a watch”

5 HN recommenders · 2014–2018

talk#538

I Like Notebooks

Jeremy Howard

“I strongly recommend Jeremy Howard's (founder of fast.ai) recent talk”

4 HN recommenders · 2020–2025

talk#635

Interactive notebooks ~ Pluto.jl | Fons van der Plas | JuliaCon 2020

The Julia Programming Language

“I think every new notebook project should take ideas from Julia's Pluto”

6 HN recommenders · 2020–2021

tutorial#638

You Suck at Excel - Joel Spolsky (Reupload)

Cool Bug Facts

“will turn you into a more proficient user of Excel.”

7 HN recommenders · 2024–2026

lecture#639

Michael Stonebraker | Big Data is (at least) Four Different Problems

Michigan Engineering

“a rather interesting talk by a very thoughtful Turing award winning engineer named Michael Stonebraker”

5 HN recommenders · 2015–2024

course#737

Special Topics - The Kalman Filter (1 of 55) What is a Kalman Filter?

Michel van Biezen

“It's really worth watching even just the first couple videos to get a deeper understanding of this very useful technique.”

5 HN recommenders · 2017–2025

talk#760

Breakout Session Presented by Dan Robinson of Heap at PGConf Silicon Valley 2015

Citus Data

“Dan from Heap Analytics has a great talk about how they use Postgres and Citus.”

4 HN recommenders · 2016–2020

interview#1093

Democrats Need to Face Why Trump Won | The Ezra Klein Show

The Ezra Klein Show

“I highly recommend this interview between Ezra Klein and Democrat strategist David Shor”

4 HN recommenders · 2025–2026

talk#1207

Keynote: Begin...End?

David Beazley

“I recommend one of the recent videos by Dave Beazly”

3 HN recommenders · 2021–2024

talk#1229

36C3 - BahnMining - Pünktlichkeit ist eine Zier - english translation

media.ccc.de

“There was this really great talk on the Chaos Communication Congress some time back”

3 HN recommenders · 2020–2023

comedy#1251

Leading Questions - Yes Prime Minister

LimeXd

“An excellent illustration of this”

4 HN recommenders · 2012–2025

talk#1254

Social Physics: How Good Ideas Spread | Sandy Pentland | Talks at Google

Talks at Google

“There's a great Authors at Google talk by Sandy Pentland”

3 HN recommenders · 2015–2022

talk#1308

Hans Rosling: Debunking third-world myths with the best stats you've ever seen

TED

“There is a great TED talk by Hans Rosling showing the same improving global condition through different metrics.”

4 HN recommenders · 2011–2017

talk#1455

KEYNOTE / Robert Erdmann

PyCon US

“This was the first talk I immediately felt the urge to share with multiple co-workers & friends.”

4 HN recommenders · 2021–2024

explainer#1474

How We’re Fooled By Statistics

Veritasium

“Veritasium explains it better than me.”

3 HN recommenders · 2014–2025

talk#1506

John Rauser keynote: "Statistics Without the Agonizing Pain" -- Strata + Hadoop 2014

O'Reilly

“This is an excellent talk I attended a while ago that explains it very well from a programmer's perspective”

3 HN recommenders · 2015–2025

talk#1635

DuckDB – The SQLite for Analytics (Mark Raasveldt, CWI)

CMU Database Group

“one of the implementers giving a talk to CMU students about what DuckDB is, why they made it, and how it works”

2 HN recommenders · 2020–2026

commentary#1738

What 40,000 Videos Tell Us About The Trending Tab

Coffee Break

“Here's an excellent video breaking down with extremely compelling data how the "trending" tab is very heavily manipulated”

3 HN recommenders · 2019–2020

podcast#1746

Travis Oliphant: NumPy, SciPy, Anaconda, Python & Scientific Programming | Lex Fridman Podcast #224

Lex Fridman

“I highly recommend this bit of history from NumPy creator Travis Oliphant”

2 HN recommenders · 2021–2024

talk#1791

The Power of Big Data and Psychographics | 2016 Concordia Annual Summit

Concordia

“I urge everyone to watch this video from Cambridge Analytica about their techniques with big data and psychographic profiling”

4 HN recommenders · 2017–2026

talk#1795

Google Developers Day US - Theorizing from Data

GoogleDeveloperDay

“You should definitely watch it if you haven't seen it before.”

3 HN recommenders · 2007–2009

lecture#1804

Efficient Bayesian inference with Hamiltonian Monte Carlo -- Michael Betancourt (Part 1)

MLSS Iceland 2014

“it was a fantastic primer on the basic concepts and motivations of mcmc, and later hmc”

3 HN recommenders · 2017–2024

lecture#1872

Peter Norvig - The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data

UBC Computer Science

“Norvig does an especially great job in making you truly appreciate the seismic impact that the availability of massive quantities of data can have”

3 HN recommenders · 2012–2026

explainer#2001

You've (Likely) Been Playing The Game Of Life Wrong

Veritasium

“Before I watched this I would default to thinking about most distributions as normal.”

4 HN recommenders · 2025–2026

talk#2004

Making R run Fast - Jan Vitek

John O'Neill

“Another talk on the difficulty of optimising R is this fantastic one by Jan Vitek”

3 HN recommenders · 2017–2023

talk#2013

Jake Vanderplas - Statistics for Hackers - PyCon 2016.mp4

PyCon 2016

“The presenters advocate using simulation/bootstrapping/shuffling methods instead of memorizing formulas.”

3 HN recommenders · 2017–2025

explainer#2183

Dance p 3 Mar09

Geoff Cumming

“absolutely fantastic and well worth watching”

2 HN recommenders · 2011–2015

tutorial#2311

Introduction to Julia - Part 1 | SciPy 2014 | David Sanders

Enthought

“I've found these talks useful as a starting point”

3 HN recommenders · 2014–2015

talk#2356

BahnMining - Pünktlichkeit ist eine Zier (David Kriesel)

media.ccc.de

“there's the great talk from David Kriesel on the 36C3 [1] about how Deutsche Bahn is... "doing statistics" to hide their delays. It's well worth the hour!”

2 HN recommenders · 2022–2026

talk#2509

Bringing the Unix Philosophy to Big Data by Bryan Cantrill: FutureStack13

New Relic

“The Bryan Cantrill talk is definitely worth your time”

2 HN recommenders · 2014–2022

explainer#2557

Cambridge Ideas - Professor Risk

Cambridge University

“Here is great video by Cambridge Ideas about the risk of dying from various activities (measured in micromorts)”

2 HN recommenders · 2013–2022

talk#2733

What is the best diet for humans? | Eran Segal | TEDxRuppin

TEDx Talks

“It was not just about the food, it was also about the person eating it”

2 HN recommenders · 2018–2023

commentary#2852

Naive empiricism, terrorism & Ebola.

N N Taleb's Probability Questions

“Watch this to understand that we're talking about two different distributions”

2 HN recommenders · 2017–2021

explainer#2908

The 100 Year Flood Is Not What You Think It Is (Maybe)

Practical Engineering

“Grady (of the Practical Engineering YouTube channel) has a great video on this topic”

2 HN recommenders · 2017–2025

explainer#3089

The Bayesian Trap

Veritasium

“what is described as the "Bayesian trap", explained by the youtuber Veritasium”

2 HN recommenders · 2017–2024

commentary#3193

violin plots should not exist

Angela Collier

“Here is a great rant (borderline lecture) from Angela Collier on why they aren’t [0]”

2 HN recommenders · 2023–2026

explainer#3219

Do these scatter plots reveal fraudulent vote-switching in Michigan?

Stand-up Maths

“here's a video that debunks many of his claims”

4 HN recommenders · 2020–2021

explainer#3274

Why do Biden's votes not follow Benford's Law?

Stand-up Maths

“Matt Parker did a good video with lots of visuals to explain why Benford's Law works in general, but why it cannot always be simply applied to election results.”

2 HN recommenders · 2020–2024