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Seeing Theory: A Visual Introduction to Probability and Statistics

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Very nice on all fronts: design, usability, and content. Source is here: 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 which is linear algebra book with very good visualizations.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

"Please do not use a mobile device!"

why?

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.

I'm willing to bet if you make a cash donation & a feature request they might fix it.

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.

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!

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.

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.

Extremely impressive, enjoyed poking through it.

Beautiful and informative, thank you.

Outstanding work by an undergraduate

Awesome, thanks!

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