Josh Starmer

Channel and publications

Josh Starmer started StatQuest to explain statistics to former co-workers, genetics researchers who generated data but did not always know how to analyze it, and has since made it a YouTube channel. The channel's description says each method in statistics, machine learning, data science and AI is a combination of small and simple steps, and that the goal is to break the major methods into easy-to-understand pieces without dumbing them down.¹²

Recent videos on the StatQuest site cover topics such as the essence of linear regression and optimization with linear programming and the simplex algorithm, presented in both main-ideas and mathematical-details versions.⁴

Books

Starmer wrote The StatQuest Illustrated Guide to Machine Learning, a fully illustrated book that runs from basic concepts such as cross validation and gradient descent through decision trees, support vector machines and neural networks, and which has been translated into Chinese, German, Korean and Spanish. A second book, The StatQuest Illustrated Guide to Neural Networks and AI, covers backpropagation, convolutional and recurrent networks, word embeddings, attention and decoder-only and encoder-only transformers, with hands-on PyTorch tutorials.³

Work and contributions

• StatQuest with Josh Starmer Show, channel or publication

  Makes StatQuest videos that explain statistics, machine learning, and AI methods step by step.²¹

• The StatQuest Illustrated Guide to Neural Networks and AI Show, channel or publication

  Author of this illustrated book on neural networks, from basic concepts through decoder-only and encoder-only transformers, with PyTorch tutorials.³

Timeline

1. May 23, 2011Joined YouTube, according to the StatQuest with Josh Starmer channel's about page.²

Where they work

• StatQuest 1 person in the wiki

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