Avi Pfeffer

Avi Pfeffer is a probabilistic programming pioneer, having been active in the field since its earliest days. Avi is the lead designer and developer of Figaro. At Charles River Analytics, Avi is engaged in applying Figaro to diverse problems including malware analysis, vehicle health monitoring, climate modeling, and evaluating engineered systems.

In his spare time, Avi is a singer, composer, and music producer. Avi lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts with his wife and three kids.

books by Avi Pfeffer

Practical Probabilistic Programming
  • March 2016
  • ISBN 9781617292330
  • 456 pages
Included with a Manning Online subscription
  • printed in black & white
  • Available translations: Korean, Russian, Simplified Chinese
catalog / Data Science / Machine Learning / Probabilistic Programming

Practical Probabilistic Programming introduces the working programmer to probabilistic programming. In this book, you'll immediately work on practical examples like building a spam filter, diagnosing computer system data problems, and recovering digital images. You'll discover probabilistic inference, where algorithms help make extended predictions about issues like social media usage. Along the way, you'll learn to use functional-style programming for text analysis, object-oriented models to predict social phenomena like the spread of tweets, and open universe models to gauge real-life social media usage. The book also has chapters on how probabilistic models can help in decision making and modeling of dynamic systems.