Hi all,
Some interesting articles in this most recent journal. Apologies for the spam, but I developed a couple learning games to help motivate the understanding of some of the more familiar statistical distributions. The original audience was my kids ~ middle school, but these might be useful to high school or even first year college students.
GUMBALL (Bernoulli to Gaussian): https://gumball.abanalytics.dev/
GPOUNDER (mostly Poisson): https://gpounder.abanalytics.dev/
How to play (if needed): https://abevergreenanalytics.substack.com/p/statistics-is-fun-no-really
Feel free to share and circle back with any comments or if you find a bug!
Cheers.
AB
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Adam Batten
Lead Statistician & President
AB EVERGREEN ANALYTICS LLC
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Original Message:
Sent: 04-20-2026 22:54
From: Juana Sanchez
Subject: Check out the April 2026 Issue of the Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education
Joshua Rosenberg, Matteo Bonvini, Andrew Bray, Ruobin Gong & Bin Yu |
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Merve N. Kursav, Scott D. Pauls, Petra Bonfert-Taylor, Lorie Loeb & Laura Ray | DIFUSE is a National Science Foundation-funded project at Dartmouth College that develops flexible and reusable data science modules. To disseminate our work, we organized a workshop where faculty par … |
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Alex Reinhart | When students learn linear regression, they must learn to use diagnostics to check and improve their models. Model-building is an expert skill requiring the interpretation of diagnostic plots, an unde … |
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Silviya Valeva, Agustin Vallejo, Ronald Klimberg, Michael Marzano, Adison Geritz & others | This article evaluates the students' reactions to an experiential learning (EL) exercise, the Craft Beer League (CBL), designed to enhance student engagement and problem-solving skills in an analytics … |
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Nicholas W. Bussberg & Laura L. Taylor | Group work is a common practice in statistics and data science courses. However, students in introductory courses often have a wide range of previous experience with group work. In this study, we exam … |
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Sedigheh Abbasnasab Sardareh, Gavin T. L. Brown & Paul Denny | Many social science research students struggle to master statistical data analysis and exhibit low ability in using statistical software tools. The current study tackles the possibility that the desig … |
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Jacqueline Herman | A redesign of a traditional introductory statistics course was performed with the intent of increasing student success in the course without the extreme burden of implementing a flipped course. A stud … |
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Brandon A. Dickson, Douglas G. Woolford, Boba Samuels & Donna Kotsopoulos | Statistics and data science post-secondary education have relied heavily on traditional lectures ("chalk and talk" or "slides"). However, newer pedagogies could increase student engagement and learnin … |
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Research in K-12 Education |
Bodong Chen, Leanne Ma & Vivian Yu Leung | Data science, as a multidisciplinary field, has gained considerable interest in K-12 education. Prior research has explored innovative ways to introduce data science to young learners, emphasizing not … |
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Datasets and Stories |
William Cipolli, Nicole M. Dalzell, Roy Bower & Ciaran Evans | In this article, we create and explore a dataset containing musical and lyrical features for tracks from three rock bands-Manchester Orchestra, The Front Bottoms, and All Get Out-all of whom contribut … |
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Juana Sanchez
Senior Lecturer Emerita
University of California, Los Angeles (Department of Statistics and Data Science)
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