hsparikh

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Founder, Tuva (tuvalabs.com)

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Comment · 4 days ago

Alas - heavy rainfall and flash floods across northern and central AZ today, so we had to postpone. Will let you know.

Comment · 5 days ago

This is timely. I am on my way to the Grand Canyon today. Will install and give it a go with my son. I think he will be excited.

Comment · 11 years ago

At Tuva (tuvalabs.com), we are creating an environment to learn foundational statistics and data analysis concepts and skills that go well beyond just video instruction. To get a feel for experience, check out a 30 sec demo here: https://vimeo.com/137256993

Comment · 11 years ago

Link is broken. Anyone have an archive?

Comment · 11 years ago

This is wonderful. We will be using/hosting some of these datasets on Tuva (tuvalabs.com) for educators and learners in K-12, Higher-Ed, and beyond.

Comment · 11 years ago

Agreed. There are many different components to learning the basics of exploring, analyzing, visualizing, and interpreting real data.

Checkout Tuva's incredibly easy to use tools to get an idea of how these concepts can be brought to life for data novices and young learners.

https://tuvalabs.com/datasets/us_cities__part_i/#/

Comment · 13 years ago

Have yet to go through Evan's post, but as you point out, the equations might be the most accessible way to truly comprehend relationships between 4 or more variables.

However, libraries like Tangle are powerful tools to visualize and understand relationships between 2-3 variables.

Comment · 13 years ago

The numbers should be draggable via touch.

Comment · 13 years ago

Definitely agree with you, and the phrasing will change as we improve the design of these pages. Thanks for the feedback!

Comment · 13 years ago

Thanks for the feedback. There is a lot of work that still needs to be done to improve the UI for these tools, but our goal is to build a library of such visual tools for tens of relevant topics.

Comment · 13 years ago

Precisely. In physics, testing extreme cases and boundary conditions is one of the first ways to get a better understanding of a system. Tangle can be a great tool to empower learners to do this visually.

Comment · 13 years ago

We are wholly inspired by Bret's work, and are currently playing around with the tangle library to help students visualize the concept of area, perimeter, and volume. Here is a preview: http://tuvalabs.com/resources/area/

We also plan to open source this code in due time. Ignore the mess please.

Comment · 14 years ago

excited to give this a whirl this weekend.

Comment · 14 years ago

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