About

These applets help people learn statistics through dynamic and interactive visualizations. They are built using the JavaScript library D3.js. Created by Mao Hu for the Coursera course Teaching Statistical Thinking.

These in-browser applets work on computers and mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets. They require no installation of software or computer programming knowledge.

Supported by the Bass Connections initiative at Duke University. Part of the Creating Online Education for K-12 Teachers of the Probability and Statistics Common Core Bass Connections project team.

More Resources

There are a wide variety of programs for conducting statistical analysis. One commonly used open-source program is RStudio, which uses the statistical programming language R. There also exist enterprise statistical analysis programs such as JMP. For a browser-based analysis software intended for teaching statistics, consider StatKey.

Thanks

My project advisers, Dalene Stangl, Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel, and Kate Allman, for your advice, support, and (loaned) books.

Matt Miller, Courtney Mauck, Monika Jingchen Hu, and Nicole Dalzell, for their help in developing the pedagogical focus of these applets.

Kathyrn Odamah, Jake Lennert, Ella Moberg, Jeffrey Ho, and John Shin for their critiques on these applets and their accompanying videos.

Aaron Krolik, for introducing me to D3.js, and Gavin Ovsák, for additional advice about building online applets.

My dear friends and family.