If you've ever wondered why some events feel more predictable than others, or why your Netflix recommendations seem spookily accurate, you're really asking questions about probability distributions. They're the mathematical tools that describe everything from how tall people are to how many customers walk into a store each hour.
This series covers both discrete distributions (for counting things) and continuous distributions (for measuring things), building from the simplest cases up to the more nuanced heavy-tailed distributions that describe wealth, earthquakes, and viral content.
The prerequisites are minimal: just some basic probability intuition. If you've ever thought "there's a 30% chance of rain" and wondered what that actually means mathematically, you're ready.