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Why Do We Have Seasons?

Earth’s 23.5° tilt is the secret — not distance from the Sun.

Monte Carlo Integration

When calculus is hard, sample instead.

Basic Monte Carlo

Let randomness do the heavy lifting.

Sampling and the Central Limit Theorem

Why everything looks normal in the limit.

Expectations and the Law of Large Numbers

What you expect is what you get — eventually.

Distributions Example: Elections

Simulating a presidential election with coin flips.

Distributions

The shapes that randomness takes.

Probability

From coin flips to Bayes’ theorem.

Box’s Loop

Build, compute, critique, repeat.

Some Data Analysis about Congress

Does the president’s party always lose seats in congress?

The LLN

Flip enough coins and the truth emerges.

Visualization As Story

Don’t make your audience think.

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