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Seeing Theory: A Visual Introduction to Probability and Statistics

206 points by kercker 10y ago

jimhefferon 10y ago
I clicked on a couple of sections and they seem to be stubs. Writing a book, even a new and revolutionary book, is a lot of work, much of it not fun.
rcdmd 10y ago
Outstanding work by an undergraduate
autokad 10y ago
I love the distribution charts (especially the beta). I'll send it off to my old stats professor. it might be a good add in to his lectures
- jeffjose 10y ago
  I made this [1] not so long back to visualize a bunch of statistical distributions. [1]: https://jeffreyjose.com/stats/dist/ https://jeffreyjose.com/stats/dist/
ludicast 10y ago
Extremely impressive, enjoyed poking through it.
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ivan_ah 10y ago
Very nice on all fronts: design, usability, and content. Source is here: https://github.com/danielkunin/Seeing-Theory https://github.com/danielkunin/Seeing-Theory (Apache licensed) Seeing projects like these makes me optimistic about EdTech. Such "math toys" and visualizations can really make otherwise dry STEM subjects come to life. See also http://immersivemath.com/ila/index.html http://immersivemath.com/ila/index.html which is linear algebra book with very good visualizations.
dominotw 10y ago
I was hoping examples with real world stories and emotional hooks, that's was 'seeing' means to me. This is great effort nevertheless, love this format compared to traditional book formats.
leeoniya 10y ago
<broken image> "Please do not use a mobile device!" why?
- bunderbunder 10y ago
  The authors probably didn't want to sink resources into making it work on mobile. It relies a lot on mouseover-type gestures, and the layout assumes a pretty large chunk of screen real estate - it doesn't even fit all that comfortably on my 13" laptop's screen.
- stevehiehn 10y ago
  I'm willing to bet if you make a cash donation & a feature request they might fix it.
- rubyfan 10y ago
  I got a kick out of the message when I clicked the link. Is this a general request or specifically for the page? There are probably better language options for whichever they are trying to communicate.
- danielkunin 10y ago
  Hi, I am the creator of Seeing Theory. That message comes up for any touch screen or mobile device. Unfortunately not all my visualizations are fully functional on mobile or touch screen devices, so I decided to post that message and hide the content. I realize that is a bad design choice. I just changed it to post a pop up message alerting the user that the visualizations might not be fully functional, but now you should still be able to view all the content. I will hopefully make it mobile friendly at a later date. Thanks for the feedback!
  - mturmon 10y ago
    Really nice work. I spent a long time studying probability in grad school and use it daily at work, but I still enjoy seeing simple demos like the ones you have made.
stevehiehn 10y ago
Awesome, thanks!
madvoid 10y ago
This is excellent, thank you! I think one thing that would make it better is a reset button for each visualization. It's always nice to go back to the default without having to reload.
cproctor 10y ago
Beautiful, and looks thoughtfully-designed. I'm looking forward to seeing this develop. One bug: In "Distributions", when you add several different values, they are graphed in lexical order, not numerical order: -5, 104, 12, 8.
chris_shiohama 10y ago
Beautiful and informative, thank you.

206 points by kercker 10y ago

I clicked on a couple of sections and they seem to be stubs. Writing a book, even a new and revolutionary book, is a lot of work, much of it not fun.

rcdmd 10y ago

Outstanding work by an undergraduate

autokad 10y ago

I love the distribution charts (especially the beta). I'll send it off to my old stats professor. it might be a good add in to his lectures

jeffjose 10y ago
I made this [1] not so long back to visualize a bunch of statistical distributions. [1]: https://jeffreyjose.com/stats/dist/ https://jeffreyjose.com/stats/dist/

ludicast 10y ago

Extremely impressive, enjoyed poking through it.

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ivan_ah 10y ago

Very nice on all fronts: design, usability, and content. Source is here: https://github.com/danielkunin/Seeing-Theory https://github.com/danielkunin/Seeing-Theory (Apache licensed) Seeing projects like these makes me optimistic about EdTech. Such "math toys" and visualizations can really make otherwise dry STEM subjects come to life. See also http://immersivemath.com/ila/index.html http://immersivemath.com/ila/index.html which is linear algebra book with very good visualizations.

dominotw 10y ago

I was hoping examples with real world stories and emotional hooks, that's was 'seeing' means to me. This is great effort nevertheless, love this format compared to traditional book formats.

leeoniya 10y ago

<broken image> "Please do not use a mobile device!" why?

bunderbunder 10y ago
The authors probably didn't want to sink resources into making it work on mobile. It relies a lot on mouseover-type gestures, and the layout assumes a pretty large chunk of screen real estate - it doesn't even fit all that comfortably on my 13" laptop's screen.
stevehiehn 10y ago
I'm willing to bet if you make a cash donation & a feature request they might fix it.
rubyfan 10y ago
I got a kick out of the message when I clicked the link. Is this a general request or specifically for the page? There are probably better language options for whichever they are trying to communicate.
danielkunin 10y ago
Hi, I am the creator of Seeing Theory. That message comes up for any touch screen or mobile device. Unfortunately not all my visualizations are fully functional on mobile or touch screen devices, so I decided to post that message and hide the content. I realize that is a bad design choice. I just changed it to post a pop up message alerting the user that the visualizations might not be fully functional, but now you should still be able to view all the content. I will hopefully make it mobile friendly at a later date. Thanks for the feedback!
- mturmon 10y ago
  Really nice work. I spent a long time studying probability in grad school and use it daily at work, but I still enjoy seeing simple demos like the ones you have made.

stevehiehn 10y ago

Awesome, thanks!

madvoid 10y ago

This is excellent, thank you! I think one thing that would make it better is a reset button for each visualization. It's always nice to go back to the default without having to reload.

cproctor 10y ago

Beautiful, and looks thoughtfully-designed. I'm looking forward to seeing this develop. One bug: In "Distributions", when you add several different values, they are graphed in lexical order, not numerical order: -5, 104, 12, 8.

chris_shiohama 10y ago

Beautiful and informative, thank you.