Adam Cunningham

University at Buffalo

Probability Playground

Website

Graph of discrete probability distribution

Probability Playground, an interactive website for exploring probability distributions and their relationships. Over 150 proofs are also provided for distribution means, variances, and relationships.

Awards

Joint statistical meetings 2023

Best Contributed Paper Award, given by the American Statistical Association Section on Statistics and Data Science Education at the JSM 2023 conference in Toronto.

Publicity

ASA Section on Statistics and Data Science Education Meet a Member

The ASA Section on Statistics and Data Science Education wrote a great summary of what the website does and how it was developed.

Health Impact profile of Adam Cunningham

The Health Impact magazine of the University at Buffalo School of Public Health and Health Professions wrote a profile covering Probability Playground (pages 22-23).

Selected Publications

Statistics Education

Concussion Diagnosis and Management

Chizuk HM, Cunningham A, Horn EC, et al. "Association of Concussion History and Prolonged Recovery in Youth" Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine, 2022; 32(6):e573-e579

Chizuk HM, Willer BS, Cunningham A, et al. "Adolescents with Sport-Related Concussion Who Adhere to Aerobic Exercise Prescriptions Recover Faster" Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, 2022; 54(9):1410-1416

Artificial Intelligence

Cunningham A, and Smart R "Computer-Aided Parts Estimation" AI Magazine, 1993; 14(3);39-49

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Python Programming

Heat Map

Scientific and Mathematical Computing Using Python, a free introduction to Python, NumPy, and Matplotlib. This book was developed to support the course "MTH 337: Introduction to Scientific and Mathematical Computing" taught at the University at Buffalo.

Primitive Pythagorean Triples

Primitive Pythagorean Triples displayed as triangles in a plane

A visual representation of the integer solutions to the equation a2 + b2 = c2. Primitive Pythagorean triples are those solutions for which a, b, and c have no common divisor larger than 1.

Goldbach Conjecture

Partitions of even numbers into two primes

A visual representation of the partitions of even numbers as the sum of two primes. This illustrates the famous "Goldbach conjecture", that every even natural number greater than 2 is the sum of two prime numbers.

Mandelbrot Set Generator

Mandelbrot set satellite

Python code for a Mandelbrot set generator using Pygame, showing both the escape times and the internal structure.

Community Involvement

Alliance Française de Buffalo

Alliance Francaise de Buffalo logo

I am currently the treasurer and a board member for the Alliance Française de Buffalo. We are a cultural and educational organization that encourages and furthers the knowledge of French speaking cultures and language in Western New York.

Upstate Cubing

Twisty puzzles created by Eli Fox

In April 2018 and 2019, my son Eli and I organized the first ever Rubik's speedcubing competitions in Western New York. The Batavia Daily News Online did a nice interview with Eli, and covered the event on the day. WGRZ in Buffalo had some great coverage of the 2018 event, and The Batavian of the competition in 2019.

Corfu Free Library

Corfu Free Library building

During my term as co-president of the Corfu Free Library from 2007 to 2011, the library underwent a major expansion and renovation, added a new children's wing, and moved from a paper-based to an online reservation system.

Byron Dig

Mastodon

I worked for six summers as a volunteer at the Hiscock site in Byron, New York, until it closed in 2011. This site dates back to the end of the last ice-age, and was the scene of many mastodon fossil discoveries.