Computable Document Format (CDF) for SPSS tutorial authors?

[John F Hall]

After .pdf comes .cdf.  This looks very interesting.

 

Have a look at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnd2YxmuP9s&feature=related

 

SPSS tutorial authors, please note.

 

John F Hall

 

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[Bruce Weaver]

Very nice!  Thanks for the link, John.  Looks like it works with Mathematica only though, right?

John F Hall wrote

After .pdf comes .cdf.  This looks very interesting.



Have a look at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnd2YxmuP9s
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnd2YxmuP9s&feature=related>
&feature=related



SPSS tutorial authors, please note.



John F Hall



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[ViAnn Beadle]

Excel contains both data and a presentation layer. Why is this all that different? Isn’t Mathematica required on the client machine to modify the content? Note that the output from SPSS does, to some degree. contain data that you can tinker with provided that you have a reader that understands the content.

 

From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of John F Hall
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Subject: Computable Document Format (CDF) for SPSS tutorial authors?

 

After .pdf comes .cdf.  This looks very interesting.

 

Have a look at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnd2YxmuP9s&feature=related

 

SPSS tutorial authors, please note.

 

John F Hall

 

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[Allum, Jeff]

I will be out of the office on Monday, August 8. I will return on Tuesday, August 9 and I will reply to e-mail then.

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ViAnn

 

Perhaps I should have said, “Authors of aids to understand statistical concepts.”  It’s the animation possibilities that look interesting for explaining things like the mean or regression lines if readers can move data points around.  I don’t have Mathematica, or even Acrobat, but I recently got a new PC with Windows 7 and Word 2007, so I can now save pdf files which which retain their layout, display more quickly on my website and have functioning hyperlinks.  Muir Houston pointed me towards MWsnap freeware which I’ve been using to capture bits of screen (eg icons on SPSS screenshots) but now there’s “snip” in Word which apparently does the same thing.

 

John

 

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From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of ViAnn Beadle
Sent: 06 August 2011 03:47
To: [hidden email]
Subject: Re: Computable Document Format (CDF) for SPSS tutorial authors?

 

Excel contains both data and a presentation layer. Why is this all that different? Isn’t Mathematica required on the client machine to modify the content? Note that the output from SPSS does, to some degree. contain data that you can tinker with provided that you have a reader that understands the content.

 

From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of John F Hall
Sent: Friday, August 05, 2011 6:08 AM
To: [hidden email]
Subject: Computable Document Format (CDF) for SPSS tutorial authors?

 

After .pdf comes .cdf.  This looks very interesting.

 

Have a look at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnd2YxmuP9s&feature=related

 

SPSS tutorial authors, please note.

 

John F Hall

 

[hidden email]

www.surveyresearch.weebly.com

[ViAnn Beadle]

You’ll find applets all over the net which interactively demonstrate statistical concepts. Here’s an example: http://www.nctm.org/standards/content.aspx?id=26787

 

 

From: John F Hall [mailto:[hidden email]]
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Subject: RE: Computable Document Format (CDF) for SPSS tutorial authors?

 

ViAnn

 

Perhaps I should have said, “Authors of aids to understand statistical concepts.”  It’s the animation possibilities that look interesting for explaining things like the mean or regression lines if readers can move data points around.  I don’t have Mathematica, or even Acrobat, but I recently got a new PC with Windows 7 and Word 2007, so I can now save pdf files which which retain their layout, display more quickly on my website and have functioning hyperlinks.  Muir Houston pointed me towards MWsnap freeware which I’ve been using to capture bits of screen (eg icons on SPSS screenshots) but now there’s “snip” in Word which apparently does the same thing.

 

John

 

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From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [hidden email] On Behalf Of ViAnn Beadle
Sent: 06 August 2011 03:47
To: [hidden email]
Subject: Re: Computable Document Format (CDF) for SPSS tutorial authors?

 

Excel contains both data and a presentation layer. Why is this all that different? Isn’t Mathematica required on the client machine to modify the content? Note that the output from SPSS does, to some degree. contain data that you can tinker with provided that you have a reader that understands the content.

 

From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [hidden email] On Behalf Of John F Hall
Sent: Friday, August 05, 2011 6:08 AM
To: [hidden email]
Subject: Computable Document Format (CDF) for SPSS tutorial authors?

 

After .pdf comes .cdf.  This looks very interesting.

 

Have a look at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnd2YxmuP9s&feature=related

 

SPSS tutorial authors, please note.

 

John F Hall

 

[hidden email]

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[John F Hall]

ViAnn,

 

Thanks.  Looks interesting, but you have to pay to join.  All my stuff is free. 

 

Bruce Weaver has some nice slide-shows, but does anyone know of other  links to free aids for interactive stats?   If anyone is interested I can send an account [off-list] of my attempts to explain (linear) regression and correlation using elastic bands attached from data points to a rigid pole rotating at the intersect of mean Y and mean X.  I’m not sure if the maths is right, but it helped (non-numerate) students to understand.

 

John

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From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of ViAnn Beadle
Sent: 08 August 2011 15:39
To: [hidden email]
Subject: Re: Computable Document Format (CDF) for SPSS tutorial authors?

 

You’ll find applets all over the net which interactively demonstrate statistical concepts. Here’s an example: http://www.nctm.org/standards/content.aspx?id=26787

 

 

From: John F Hall [mailto:[hidden email]]
Sent: Saturday, August 06, 2011 2:07 AM
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Subject: RE: Computable Document Format (CDF) for SPSS tutorial authors?

 

ViAnn

 

Perhaps I should have said, “Authors of aids to understand statistical concepts.”  It’s the animation possibilities that look interesting for explaining things like the mean or regression lines if readers can move data points around.  I don’t have Mathematica, or even Acrobat, but I recently got a new PC with Windows 7 and Word 2007, so I can now save pdf files which which retain their layout, display more quickly on my website and have functioning hyperlinks.  Muir Houston pointed me towards MWsnap freeware which I’ve been using to capture bits of screen (eg icons on SPSS screenshots) but now there’s “snip” in Word which apparently does the same thing.

 

John

 

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From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [hidden email] On Behalf Of ViAnn Beadle
Sent: 06 August 2011 03:47
To: [hidden email]
Subject: Re: Computable Document Format (CDF) for SPSS tutorial authors?

 

Excel contains both data and a presentation layer. Why is this all that different? Isn’t Mathematica required on the client machine to modify the content? Note that the output from SPSS does, to some degree. contain data that you can tinker with provided that you have a reader that understands the content.

 

From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [hidden email] On Behalf Of John F Hall
Sent: Friday, August 05, 2011 6:08 AM
To: [hidden email]
Subject: Computable Document Format (CDF) for SPSS tutorial authors?

 

After .pdf comes .cdf.  This looks very interesting.

 

Have a look at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnd2YxmuP9s&feature=related

 

SPSS tutorial authors, please note.

 

John F Hall

 

[hidden email]

www.surveyresearch.weebly.com

[Art Kendall]

I would be surprised if it did not also expand the understanding of numerate students.

Art

On 8/8/2011 11:39 AM, John F Hall wrote:

ViAnn,

 

Thanks.  Looks interesting, but you have to pay to join.  All my stuff is free. 

 

Bruce Weaver has some nice slide-shows, but does anyone know of other  links to free aids for interactive stats?   If anyone is interested I can send an account [off-list] of my attempts to explain (linear) regression and correlation using elastic bands attached from data points to a rigid pole rotating at the intersect of mean Y and mean X.  I’m not sure if the maths is right, but it helped (non-numerate) students to understand.

 

John

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www.surveyresearch.weebly.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [[hidden email]] On Behalf Of ViAnn Beadle
Sent: 08 August 2011 15:39
To: [hidden email]
Subject: Re: Computable Document Format (CDF) for SPSS tutorial authors?

 

You’ll find applets all over the net which interactively demonstrate statistical concepts. Here’s an example: http://www.nctm.org/standards/content.aspx?id=26787

 

 

From: John F Hall [[hidden email]]
Sent: Saturday, August 06, 2011 2:07 AM
To: 'ViAnn Beadle'; [hidden email]
Cc: [hidden email]; 'Dr. Thomas W. MacFarland'; 'Bruce Weaver'; [hidden email]; [hidden email]; [hidden email]; [hidden email]; 'Lee, Carl'; [hidden email]
Subject: RE: Computable Document Format (CDF) for SPSS tutorial authors?

 

ViAnn

 

Perhaps I should have said, “Authors of aids to understand statistical concepts.”  It’s the animation possibilities that look interesting for explaining things like the mean or regression lines if readers can move data points around.  I don’t have Mathematica, or even Acrobat, but I recently got a new PC with Windows 7 and Word 2007, so I can now save pdf files which which retain their layout, display more quickly on my website and have functioning hyperlinks.  Muir Houston pointed me towards MWsnap freeware which I’ve been using to capture bits of screen (eg icons on SPSS screenshots) but now there’s “snip” in Word which apparently does the same thing.

 

John

 

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www.surveyresearch.weebly.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [hidden email] On Behalf Of ViAnn Beadle
Sent: 06 August 2011 03:47
To: [hidden email]
Subject: Re: Computable Document Format (CDF) for SPSS tutorial authors?

 

Excel contains both data and a presentation layer. Why is this all that different? Isn’t Mathematica required on the client machine to modify the content? Note that the output from SPSS does, to some degree. contain data that you can tinker with provided that you have a reader that understands the content.

 

From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [hidden email] On Behalf Of John F Hall
Sent: Friday, August 05, 2011 6:08 AM
To: [hidden email]
Subject: Computable Document Format (CDF) for SPSS tutorial authors?

 

After .pdf comes .cdf.  This looks very interesting.

 

Have a look at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnd2YxmuP9s&feature=related

 

SPSS tutorial authors, please note.

 

John F Hall

 

[hidden email]

www.surveyresearch.weebly.com

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[ViAnn Beadle]

The applets work just fine without a login from my link.

 

Here’s another example: http://www.cse.illinois.edu/iem/least_squares/data_fitting/

 

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Sent: Monday, August 08, 2011 10:31 AM
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Subject: Re: Visual aids for interactive stats [was: Computable Document Format (CDF) for SPSS tutorial authors?]

 

I would be surprised if it did not also expand the understanding of numerate students.

Art

On 8/8/2011 11:39 AM, John F Hall wrote:

ViAnn,

 

Thanks.  Looks interesting, but you have to pay to join.  All my stuff is free. 

 

Bruce Weaver has some nice slide-shows, but does anyone know of other  links to free aids for interactive stats?   If anyone is interested I can send an account [off-list] of my attempts to explain (linear) regression and correlation using elastic bands attached from data points to a rigid pole rotating at the intersect of mean Y and mean X.  I’m not sure if the maths is right, but it helped (non-numerate) students to understand.

 

John

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www.surveyresearch.weebly.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [[hidden email]] On Behalf Of ViAnn Beadle
Sent: 08 August 2011 15:39
To: [hidden email]
Subject: Re: Computable Document Format (CDF) for SPSS tutorial authors?

 

You’ll find applets all over the net which interactively demonstrate statistical concepts. Here’s an example: http://www.nctm.org/standards/content.aspx?id=26787

 

 

From: John F Hall [[hidden email]]
Sent: Saturday, August 06, 2011 2:07 AM
To: 'ViAnn Beadle'; [hidden email]
Cc: [hidden email]; 'Dr. Thomas W. MacFarland'; 'Bruce Weaver'; [hidden email]; [hidden email]; [hidden email]; [hidden email]; 'Lee, Carl'; [hidden email]
Subject: RE: Computable Document Format (CDF) for SPSS tutorial authors?

 

ViAnn

 

Perhaps I should have said, “Authors of aids to understand statistical concepts.”  It’s the animation possibilities that look interesting for explaining things like the mean or regression lines if readers can move data points around.  I don’t have Mathematica, or even Acrobat, but I recently got a new PC with Windows 7 and Word 2007, so I can now save pdf files which which retain their layout, display more quickly on my website and have functioning hyperlinks.  Muir Houston pointed me towards MWsnap freeware which I’ve been using to capture bits of screen (eg icons on SPSS screenshots) but now there’s “snip” in Word which apparently does the same thing.

 

John

 

[hidden email]

www.surveyresearch.weebly.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [hidden email] On Behalf Of ViAnn Beadle
Sent: 06 August 2011 03:47
To: [hidden email]
Subject: Re: Computable Document Format (CDF) for SPSS tutorial authors?

 

Excel contains both data and a presentation layer. Why is this all that different? Isn’t Mathematica required on the client machine to modify the content? Note that the output from SPSS does, to some degree. contain data that you can tinker with provided that you have a reader that understands the content.

 

From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [hidden email] On Behalf Of John F Hall
Sent: Friday, August 05, 2011 6:08 AM
To: [hidden email]
Subject: Computable Document Format (CDF) for SPSS tutorial authors?

 

After .pdf comes .cdf.  This looks very interesting.

 

Have a look at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnd2YxmuP9s&feature=related

 

SPSS tutorial authors, please note.

 

John F Hall

 

[hidden email]

www.surveyresearch.weebly.com

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[John F Hall]

Just came across a set of tutorials by Kardi Tecnomo: this one has the kind of (static) visual aid which makes sense to non-numerate students.  He’s basically an engineer and recommends MS Excel and R: perhaps someone should tell him about SPSS?

 

http://people.revoledu.com/kardi/tutorial/BasicMath/Average/mean.html

 

Most of the other tutorials are heavy on equations, but the Q and A format of pages may be helpful to many students.

 

 

John F Hall

 

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From: John F Hall [mailto:[hidden email]]
Sent: 08 August 2011 17:40
To: 'ViAnn Beadle'
Cc: '[hidden email]'; '[hidden email]'; 'Bruce Weaver'; '[hidden email]'; '[hidden email]'; '[hidden email]'; '[hidden email]'; '[hidden email]'; '[hidden email]'
Subject: Visual aids for interactive stats [was: Computable Document Format (CDF) for SPSS tutorial authors?]

 

ViAnn,

 

Thanks.  Looks interesting, but you have to pay to join.  All my stuff is free. 

 

Bruce Weaver has some nice slide-shows, but does anyone know of other  links to free aids for interactive stats?   If anyone is interested I can send an account [off-list] of my attempts to explain (linear) regression and correlation using elastic bands attached from data points to a rigid pole rotating at the intersect of mean Y and mean X.  I’m not sure if the maths is right, but it helped (non-numerate) students to understand.

 

John

[hidden email]

www.surveyresearch.weebly.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of ViAnn Beadle
Sent: 08 August 2011 15:39
To: [hidden email]
Subject: Re: Computable Document Format (CDF) for SPSS tutorial authors?

 

You’ll find applets all over the net which interactively demonstrate statistical concepts. Here’s an example: http://www.nctm.org/standards/content.aspx?id=26787

 

 

From: John F Hall [mailto:[hidden email]]
Sent: Saturday, August 06, 2011 2:07 AM
To: 'ViAnn Beadle'; [hidden email]
Cc: [hidden email]; 'Dr. Thomas W. MacFarland'; 'Bruce Weaver'; [hidden email]; [hidden email]; [hidden email]; [hidden email]; 'Lee, Carl'; [hidden email]
Subject: RE: Computable Document Format (CDF) for SPSS tutorial authors?

 

ViAnn

 

Perhaps I should have said, “Authors of aids to understand statistical concepts.”  It’s the animation possibilities that look interesting for explaining things like the mean or regression lines if readers can move data points around.  I don’t have Mathematica, or even Acrobat, but I recently got a new PC with Windows 7 and Word 2007, so I can now save pdf files which which retain their layout, display more quickly on my website and have functioning hyperlinks.  Muir Houston pointed me towards MWsnap freeware which I’ve been using to capture bits of screen (eg icons on SPSS screenshots) but now there’s “snip” in Word which apparently does the same thing.

 

John

 

[hidden email]

www.surveyresearch.weebly.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [hidden email] On Behalf Of ViAnn Beadle
Sent: 06 August 2011 03:47
To: [hidden email]
Subject: Re: Computable Document Format (CDF) for SPSS tutorial authors?

 

Excel contains both data and a presentation layer. Why is this all that different? Isn’t Mathematica required on the client machine to modify the content? Note that the output from SPSS does, to some degree. contain data that you can tinker with provided that you have a reader that understands the content.

 

From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [hidden email] On Behalf Of John F Hall
Sent: Friday, August 05, 2011 6:08 AM
To: [hidden email]
Subject: Computable Document Format (CDF) for SPSS tutorial authors?

 

After .pdf comes .cdf.  This looks very interesting.

 

Have a look at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnd2YxmuP9s&feature=related

 

SPSS tutorial authors, please note.

 

John F Hall

 

[hidden email]

www.surveyresearch.weebly.com