Tales of Bayesian Regression - Devavrat Shah, Associate Professor, MIT

Tales of Bayesian Regression In this talk, I will discuss few case studies for unusually accurate predictions with unstructured data. We develop and utilize the method of Bayesian Regression for what we call “Latent Source Model“. The basic insight is quite simple. There are only few distinct ways in which phenomenon of interest occurs. Be it topics trending on Twitter, price variations in Bitcoin or choices consumers make in going to restaurants, shopping clothes or watching movies. The method is embarras