[Blindmath] Summer University workshop in Vienna

Mon Dec 21 20:37:07 UTC 2009

Hello,
I have used gnuplot a bit. Its accessible mainly because its a command 
line tool and as I remember you can put a sequence of commands in one 
script for it. Also on linux there is a front end to gnuplot (I can't 
remember the name of it, that was accessible as it used GTK for the GUI, 
unfortunately GTK is inaccessible on windows but may be there is another 
GUI). Gnuplot can output to many formats, including eps (useful for 
LaTeX) and SVG.

I certainly wouldn't call myself a gnuplot expert, I basically learnt 
what I needed to complete my physics degree. However if you want me to 
say something about it there then I could brush up on it in the mean 
time (it may go better with stats packages but I suppose it can fit with 
LaTeX as you want to produce graphs for including in documents).

Michael Whapples
On 21/12/09 17:33, John Gardner wrote:
> Thanks for the good ideas Roopakshi. Can you give some more details 
> about the plotting routines you mention. I don't know these. I presume 
> they are accessible. What kinds of output can they make?
>
> Several of your suggestions are incorporated into tutorials that are 
> already planned. Data sonification, spreadsheet use, charting from 
> Excel for example. Maple has been suggested as a topic for a tutorial, 
> but MatLab hasn't previously been suggested.
>
> I would be delighted if you could come and present a tutorial on stat 
> packages. And plotting routines too!
>
> John
>
>
> On 12/20/2009 5:35 AM, Roopakshi Pathania wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> OK, here I go, but remember you did ask for advice.
>>
>> I dividing the topics that I consider to be necessary into 2 
>> categories, simply because the second category is of personal interest.
>>
>> - Working with MATLAB
>>
>> - Creating content in DAISY with MathML (to be possibly covered by 
>> Design Science?)
>>
>> - Producing Mathematical content using speech recognition tools 
>> (TalkMaths possibly?)
>>
>> I willing to volunteer for the R session, but my skill level is 
>> nowhere near to that of Professor Godfree. This brings me to my 
>> second category where I have some basic experience, but anyone else 
>> with better knowledge is welcome to do the job
>>
>> - Use of other statistical packages like Stata
>>
>> - Creating basic diagrams using Gnuplot, the PSTrix package, etc.
>>
>> - Data sonification (basic graphs)
>>
>> - Working with Spreadsheet functions and formulas (this caters more 
>> to the real world applications)
>>
>>
>> Bert, a member of this list, and currently pursuing a doctoral thesis 
>> in Development Economics is also good with Statistical packages.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> "Hard work will get you a professorship or a BMW. You need both work 
>> and luck for a Booker, a Nobel or a private jet."
>> ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
>>
>>
>> --- On Fri, 12/18/09, John Gardner<john.gardner at orst.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> From: John Gardner<john.gardner at orst.edu>
>>> Subject: [Blindmath] Summer University workshop in Vienna
>>> To: "Blind Math list for those interested in 
>>> mathematics"<blindmath at nfbnet.org>
>>> Date: Friday, December 18, 2009, 3:50 AM
>>> Hello listers, I need some advice
>>> from all you good people and would also like to invite you
>>> to participate in this workshop. It will be held on
>>> Monday-Tuesday, July 12-13 in Vienna, Austria. The
>>> workshop is free, and all participants will be given free
>>> registration for the main ICCHP conference (International
>>> Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs),
>>> held on July 14-16 at the same venue. Unfortunately there is
>>> presently no major sponsor, so both participants and
>>> presenters must find their own funding for travel and living
>>> costs during the workshop and conference. We expect
>>> between twenty and forty student participants but thus far
>>> we have not set a maximum.
>>>
>>> The workshop is aimed at students in high school or
>>> university who are blind and need to learn how best to
>>> access math and science. There are still a couple of
>>> teaching positions that are open too - including a tutorial
>>> presenter on access to Statistics software. Jonathan
>>> Godfrey, our own expert on that topic, will probably not be
>>> able to find funding for him to come from New Zealand, so I
>>> am hoping there may be another volunteer who can find
>>> funding??
>>>
>>> The advice I am seeking is your feedback on what needs to
>>> be covered. The format will be tutorials in two hour
>>> sessions. A particularly hearty student could take as
>>> many as eight in two days. The more popular ones will
>>> be given multiple times. Topics presently on the
>>> agenda include the following:
>>> From ViewPlus, tutorials on Accessible Graphics, Audio
>>> Graphing Calculator, and Embossing Math/Science
>>> Documents. From Infty, tutorials on the Infty Reader
>>> math OCR software and ChattyInfty, the accessible math
>>> reader/edditor application. The Lambda group will
>>> present on the Lambda code for math. Several other
>>> topics are under discussion including one on latex, but they
>>> are not yet confirmed.
>>>
>>> I would be very grateful for your advice on what needs to
>>> be presented in this workshop.
>>>
>>> John Gardner
>>>
>>>
>>>
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