1 - Interacting with data
February 2nd, 2010.
Slides
PDF (4232KB)
DJVU (2336KB)
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Scribe notes
n/a.
Summary
Three short stories.
General information about the course.
Readings
(optional)
"On the mode of communication of Cholera"
(John Snow, 1854)
(optional)
"From association to causation: some remarks on the history of statistics"
(John Freedman)
Links
The
"home page" of Tycho Brahe
.
About the discovery
of Kepler's first and second law
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The
John Snow archive
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The site of the
Atlas experiment
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