====== 1 - Interacting with data  ======

February 2nd, 2010.

=== Slides ===

 [[cos424>slides/1-intro.pdf|PDF (4232KB)]] [[cos424>slides/1-intro.djvu|DJVU (2336KB)]].

=== Scribe notes === 

n/a.

=== Summary ===

  * Three short stories.
  * General information about the course.

=== Readings ===

  * (optional) //[[http://johnsnow.matrix.msu.edu/work.php?id=15-78-52|
"On the mode of communication of Cholera"]]// (John Snow, 1854)
  * (optional) //[[cos424>papers/Freedman1999.pdf|"From association to causation: some remarks on the history of statistics"]]// (John Freedman)


=== Links ===

   * The [[http://www.nada.kth.se/~fred/tycho/index.html|"home page" of Tycho Brahe]].
   * About the discovery [[http://galileoandeinstein.physics.virginia.edu/1995/lectures/morekepl.html|of Kepler's first and second law]].
   * The [[http://johnsnow.matrix.msu.edu/|John Snow archive]].
   * The site of the [[http://atlas.ch|Atlas experiment]].