Developed by Laura Breiman (lauracle@mit.edu) and Samarth Mohan (smohan94@mit.edu) Mentor: Fredo Durand (fredopdurand@gmail.com)
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General Description: this applet helps students visualize the process of finding a line of best-fit by interactively minimizing the sum of least squares. For use in the MIT class 6.00 (Introduction to Computer Science and Programming) to understand least-squares algorithms.
Uses: Bootstrap, Javascript, CSS, jQuery, jQueryUI, d3
To view the demo:
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To insert the applet in your own web page, follow these steps:
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Clone our GitHub Repository so that you have access to our files. (www.github.com/laurabreiman/line-fitter)
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Then, add the following HTML code to the head of your own code, and insert a div with class "line-fit" in the body of your html:
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Clone this repository so that you have access to all the necessary files and folders.
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Add the following HTML code to the head of your own code, and insert a div with class "line-fit" in the body of your html:
<head> <script src ="example-data.js"></script> <script src ="work-data.js"></script> <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.10.1/jquery.min.js"></script> <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.10.3/jquery-ui.min.js"></script> <script src="bootstrap/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script> <script src="http://d3js.org/d3.v3.min.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <link href="bootstrap/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet"> <link rel="stylesheet" href="font-awesome/css/font-awesome.min.css"> <link href="line-fitter.css" rel="stylesheet"> <link rel="stylesheet" href="http://code.jquery.com/ui/1.10.3/themes/smoothness/jquery-ui.css" /> <script src="line-fitter.js"></script> </head> .... .... <body> <div class = "line-fit"></div> ... </body>