A product that takes a similar approach is:
“A Curious Moon” @ BigMachine [0]
It’s not an intro to time series or data analysis, but it’s a great intro to Postgres, db administration, and etl that follows a fun and compelling storyline. The presentation is different, but the “edutainment” style is similar.
I love this type of education - do you know where I can find more content like that? I really have trouble finding stuff like this just by Googling; rather, I seem to stumble over it from time to time.
Heh, indeed, the similarly effective method if gamification. Even relatively "dry" things like algebra can be gamified, Dragonbox is a good example. From my limited experience (1 kid), it works really well.
That's fair in a sense but it also looks like they moved the preview paywall much earlier in the chapter, 22% instead of 46%.
Towards the middle of the chapter they start asking intuitive questions about how coefficients in the power-series map to the real-life concepts they've been discussing "childishly" up until then.
It's a major turning point and I wonder if you just didn't get the opportunity to see that shift. It's infantilizing right up until it isn't.
I'm not sure which is more annoying:
-going through years of education in pure mathematics without this kind of tutorial
-not having come up with this method myself, when it's so close to the dumbed-down edutainment software of the 90's
Every university course should start with at least a day of instruction written in this style.
[kicks dirt]