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As of the 23rd May 2022 this website is archived and will receive no further updates.

understandinguncertainty.org was produced by the Winton programme for the public understanding of risk based in the Statistical Laboratory in the University of Cambridge. The aim was to help improve the way that uncertainty and risk are discussed in society, and show how probability and statistics can be both useful and entertaining.

Many of the animations were produced using Flash and will no longer work.

Detailed Animation Generator Help

Introduction

Obtain UUAnimationGenerator from CVS and drag its build file to the Flex Builder
ant panel.

Use this build file to
(a) Populate a Flex or AIR project with template data, so it runs straight away.
(b) Add commands, tabs, view/mediator pairs, and proxy templates as needed.
You will need to run add-tab at least once to get a working animation.

Help for Animators

This is a brief introduction to the development environment we use in creating animations. Refer to Adobe documentation of Flash and Flex/Flash Builder for most details - here we concentrate on the specifics of the UU system.

Project sources are saved in CVSROOT on led.maths.org - in the uuflex folder.

Running alongside the standard Flex Builder tools are a set of Ant tools that

Using Workflow

Managing Workflow

By Workflow we mean the features of the site that track the status and hence the visibility of an item from initial creation to publication.

Help for Authors

Getting Started

If you are going to edit an existing page, the first thing to do is to find it in the menu system, view it, and click on Edit.
If you want to create a new page you have a couple of decisions to make first:

  1. Is it for internal or external use?

Internal Documents

This is a directory of internal documents.

See the site bibliography for referenced works.

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