:tocdepth: 2

.. _app-proposed-chapters:

=============================
 Appendix: Proposed chapters
=============================


Motivation, prerequisites, plan
===============================

This appendix is a grabbag of possible chapters -- ideas for topics
that are interesting, especially to middle and high school students,
and which are waiting for someone to write a chapter about them.

It is structured as a simple list of sections with a chapter topic in
each.  Each section has some references on materials.

Once a co-author wants to write a chapter on that subject, she should
transfer that material into a chapter, flesh out the chapter (see
:numref:`app-how-to-add-a-chapter`), and remove it from this appendix.

.. _sec-a-tour-of-datasets:

A tour of datasets
===================

[status: unwritten]

* https://www.dataquest.io/blog/free-datasets-for-projects/


Climate change
--------------

538 blog data
-------------


.. _sec-special-numbers-pi:

Special numbers: \pi
====================

[status: unwritten]

Motivation, prerequisites, plan
-------------------------------

Purpose: a recreational way of calculating \pi using random numbers.
This brings out various features of probability and statistics.

Prerequisites:

* The 10-hour "serious programming" course.

* The "Data files and first plots" mini-course in
  :numref:`chap-data-files-and-first-plots`

* Random number basics :numref:`chap-random-number-basics`


Predator-prey modeling
======================

Areas: biology, ecology

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYq2078_xqc - Khan Academy video
  with pleasant intro to cycles and real examples, 5min.

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFDiiSqGB7M - crash course on
  predator-prey ecology

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotka%E2%80%93Volterra_equations#A_simple_example

* http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Predator-prey_model

* http://mc-stan.org/users/documentation/case-studies/lotka-volterra-predator-prey.html

Still have to look at articles on 3-way predator-prey:

* http://emis.ams.org/journals/HOA/JAMDS/3/2155.pdf

* chrome-extension://oemmndcbldboiebfnladdacbdfmadadm/https://www.cs.unm.edu/~forrest/classes/cs365/lectures/Lotka-Volterra.pdf

* http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.360.1552&rep=rep1&type=pdf

* http://disi.unal.edu.co/~gjhernandezp/sim/lectures/DeterministicModelsAndChaos/PopulationModels/LotkaVolterra3species.pdf


And how about simple models of a full society collapse?

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collapse:_How_Societies_Choose_to_Fail_or_Succeed

* http://necsi.edu/projects/evolution/co-evolution/pred-prey/co-evolution_predator.html

* https://www.ted.com/talks/jared_diamond_on_why_societies_collapse

* https://arxiv.org/abs/1002.0068

* https://faustusnotes.wordpress.com/2014/05/15/mathematical-modeling-of-civilization-collapse/

Cliometrics

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliometrics


Artificial life
===============

Areas: biology, ecology, complex systems

* https://avida-ed.msu.edu/

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avida


Genetic algorithms
==================

Othello

Robbie the Robot (from Melanie Mitchell's book)

you'll get to Melanie Mitchell's mooc when you get to chapter 4 on emergent behavior
it will point you
here:https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLF0b3ThojznRyDQlitfUTzXEXwLNNE-mIand
for that section of my book the prerequisite is to watch section 6.3
of the
mooc:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVSseAnEzxs&index=85&list=PLF0b3ThojznRyDQlitfUTzXEXwLNNE-mIwatching
the full MOOC and the section on Robbie the Robot should be done at
home since it goes somewhat afield of what we are doing at work