Computer science is not about machines, in the same way that astronomy is not about telescopes. There is an essential unity of mathematics and computer science -- Mike Fellows (often attributed to Dijkstra, but first published by Fellows in 1991 in "Computer SCIENCE and Mathematics in the Elementary Schools")
Sarah, this is awesome! It makes me want to see more of this way of looking at data. (Is the mass media listening????) For some reason it gives me an itch to go reread Freakanomics, too....
Sarah, this is awesome! It makes me want to see more of this way of looking at data. (Is the mass media listening????) For some reason it gives me an itch to go reread Freakanomics, too....
ReplyDeleteThis is wonderful. I show this video every semester to my Elementary Statistics class and they get a big kick out of it.
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