On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 2:59 PM, Edward Cherlin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:echerlin@gmail.com">echerlin@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im"><br>
</div>Baseball stats and turtles? That's something I have been wishing for.<br>
I think that the best way to interest children in probability and<br>
statistics is sports, including published data and the book Money<br>
Ball. Also Nate Silver of the New York Times Five Thirty Eight blog,<br>
one of the best analysts of political races (though not of policy),<br>
started out in poker and sports.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes, I remember your interest.</div><div><br></div><div>Several of our courses touch on SQL here and there, and when it comes</div><div>to having some canned, pre-existing tables on the back end, I can </div>
<div>think of fewer richer data mines that the aggregating pool of </div><div>baseball stats. I've floated this by other staff and know I have an</div><div>ally in one of the editors. Question is: are baseball stats available</div>
<div>for MySQL in some open source format, or locked up under lock </div><div>and key by proprietary dot com pay-per-view services?</div><div><br></div><div>In a Norman Rockwell future where America gives lip service to </div>
<div>appreciating education, there'd be no problem freely accessing all</div><div>these numbers, copying them to the home hard drive. Maybe </div><div>this already exists. I'm in the beginning stages.</div><div>
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I would like to see your work, and discuss with you and various other<br>
people creating an OER with it in the Sugar Labs Replacing Textbooks<br>
project.<br>
<div class="im"><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I'm trying to condense a lot of concepts into a dense compacted</div><div>set of modules that aren't too daunting to read, and that don't hide</div><div>
a lot of functionality. The metaphor of a Turtle has been replaced</div><div>with a Tractor in a field (ascii 2d matrix / array). This isn't about</div><div>displacing turtle graphics, it's about creating an analogy that's </div>
<div>even simpler (more primitive).</div><div><br></div><div>Kirby</div><div><br></div></div>