# Webinar Alert: Latent Calendar - Modeling Weekly Behavior with Latent Components (Oct 25, 2023)

**URL:** <https://discourse.pymc.io/t/webinar-alert-latent-calendar-modeling-weekly-behavior-with-latent-components-oct-25-2023/13110>\
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**Created:** [October 16, 2023, 1:34pm UTC](https://discourse.pymc.io/t/webinar-alert-latent-calendar-modeling-weekly-behavior-with-latent-components-oct-25-2023/13110 "2023-10-16T13:34:20Z")\
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**Speaker** : [Will Dean](https://www.linkedin.com/in/williambdean/), [Thomas Wiecki, PhD](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ACoAAAlPjQsB9khSgXTWTM2phblua2XcZIyWpxY)  
**Date** : 2023-10-25T16:00:00Z  
**Time** : 16:00 UTC / 9am PT / 12pm ET / 6pm Berlin  
**Location** : Online, via Zoom  
**Register here** (for zoom link) : [Latent Calendar: Modeling Weekly Behavior with Latent Components, Wed, Oct 25, 2023, 12:00 PM | Meetup](https://www.meetup.com/pymc-labs-online-meetup/events/295796887/)

Join us for a fascinating webinar where we’ll explore how NLP can make your weekly calendars a breeze to manage. You don’t want to miss this!

In this event, Will Dean and Thomas Wiecki, will demystify the art of understanding weekly calendars. They’ll be using Latent Dirichlet Allocation to simplify your weekly plans. For a sneak peek, check out the “ **latent-calendar** ” on PyPI or see an example here: [Bikes in Chicago - Latent Calendar](https://wd60622.github.io/latent-calendar/examples/datasets/bikes-in-chicago/)

**About the speaker:**

1. **Will Dean**  
Senior Data Scientist at FREENOW  
Will Dean is a Statistician and Data Scientist with experience in geospatial and user analytics. He is passionate about Bayesian methods and using data visualization to tell a story. He is interested in software design and how it can make data problems easier and more enjoyable to solve.

2. **Dr. Thomas Wiecki (PyMC Labs)**  
Dr. Thomas Wiecki is an author of PyMC, the leading platform for statistical data science. To help businesses solve some of their trickiest data science problems, he assembled a world-class team of Bayesian modelers and founded PyMC Labs – the Bayesian consultancy. He did his PhD at Brown University studying cognitive neuroscience.

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In case you missed the live webinar, the recording is now live on YouTube! you can still catch all the valuable insights shared by Will Dean and Thomas Wiecki

Watch the recording now 👇

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/k0CN-cuq724/maxresdefault.jpg "Latent Calendar: Modeling Weekly Behavior with Latent Components") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0CN-cuq724)

The link to the documentation for the `latent-calendar` repo is available in the video description. You can track down the slide material as well as other details talked about.

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