Allen Downey

Allen Downey is a Professor Emeritus at Olin College and Principal Data Scientist at PyMC Labs. He is the author of several books related to programming and data science, including Probably Overthinking It, Think Python, Think Stats, and Think Bayes. The idea behind these books is that if you know how to program, you can use that skill to learn other things.

Allen has a Ph.D. from U.C. Berkeley and M.S. and B.S. degrees from MIT. He has taught at Olin College, Colby College and Wellesley College.