Animating MCMC with PyMC3 and Matplotlib

1 · Thomas Wiecki · Jan. 2, 2014, 2 p.m.
Here's the deal: I used PyMC3, matplotlib, and Jake Vanderplas' JSAnimation to create javascript animations of three MCMC sampling algorithms -- Metropolis-Hastings, slice sampling and NUTS. I like visualizations because they provide a good intuition for how the samplers work and what problems they can run into. You can download the …...