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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 f…

Link is broken. Anyone have an archive?

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.

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…

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, lib…

The numbers should be draggable via touch.

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

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 r…

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 learn…

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 pre…

excited to give this a whirl this weekend.

i have been using a variety of extensions (bitly, etc.) for awhile now and have never had an issue like this before. I can log into fb, but nothing shows up on the initial page.

FWIW, I haven't been able to load my facebook newsfeed on Chrome for the last 3-4 days.

As someone learning web development, I'd love to get some insights into how one could build this.

Thank you! I will be in touch.

I am learning django/web development, and will likely be launching my app in the wild soon. A link that details out how to manage deployment and source code management using git wo…

Feynman clearly mentions in "Surely You are Joking..." that he got turned down from Columbia for his undergraduate degree due to Jewish quotas that existed among universities at th…

Very sad news. My sincere condolences to his family and friends.

Can't find the link at the moment, but this is incorrect. The first results that came out of the initial trial showed no significant improvement in student performance using KA's a…

I believe there is a startup from this semester's Imagine K-12 batch that is working on a similar product, albeit its more twitter like. Here it is: http://www.remind101.com/ Teach…

IMO two aspects you must look at carefully are: the startup company, and the team. You obviously joined a startup because you believed in the founders, and what they are building. …

As another chapter closes on the Arab Spring, BBC is bringing to us brilliant coverage of events on ground through the power of technology combined with real guts and determination…