Crooked Timber — Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made. Announcing the Release of SWIRL 2.0. Editor's note: This post was written by Nick Carchedi, a Master's degree student in the Department of Biostatistics at Johns Hopkins. He is working with us to develop the Data Science Specialization as well as software for interactive learning of R and statistics. Official swirl website: swirlstats.com On September 27, 2013, I wrote a guest blog post on Simply Statistics to announce the creation of Statistics with Interactive R Learning (swirl), an R package for teaching and learning statistics and R simultaneously and interactively.
Over the next several months, I received a tremendous amount of feedback from all over the world. In the spirit of R and open source software, I shared the source code for swirl on GitHub. Today, I'm happy to announce the result of our efforts: swirl 2.0. Like the first version of the software, swirl 2.0 guides students through interactive tutorials in the R console on a variety of topics related to statistics and R. 50 Things Everyone Should Know How To Do. LOC Primary Source websites. Open source resources for homeschooling. Image by opensource.com I never realized how much I rely on open source and public libraries until I started homeschooling last year. When I started to write for Opensource.com, my son was in school. He's nearly eight years old, but he's already been in both public and private schools and in both special needs and gifted programs. I've thus been on both sides of the educational spectrum.
As a librarian, former teacher, and homeschooling mother, I am familiar with what formal schools can offer and what homeschooling and open source resources (programs, tools, etc.) can offer. Homeschooling is increasingly popular due to the differences between what schools can provide and what open source can offer homeschoolers. Even in China, bright children like my son are increasingly being educated at home or having their public or private education supplemented at home. A child in a public school, by contrast, often faces limits with their learning and knowledge acquisition.
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