https://tigyog.app/ Page loading Skip to main contentDoc menu Google Sign-In Or sign in with email --------------------------------------------------------------------- Writer's cornerSend feedback --------------------------------------------------------------------- By using this site, you agree to our privacy policy. [ ]Sign in TigYog Teach and earn by writing interactive stories. Online courses don't have to be video playlists! Write your first course! Featured courses Could not load SVG In this interactive course, you'll participate in my life stories, and learn data science tricks for optimizing your day-to-day life. You'll make the perfect glass of lemonade using Thompson sampling. You'll lose weight with differential equations. And you might just qualify for the Olympics with a bit of statistics! In 2021, I wrote the book Everyday Data Science. This year, I've teamed up with Jim Fisher to transform the book into this course. Each chapter is an interactive tale, like a conversation with a storyteller. Here's the first chapter to show you what we mean! An illustration of a beaver writing numbers on a very long roll of tape Busy Beavers! An interactive intro to Computability Theory What can computers do? What are the limits of mathematics? And just how busy can a busy beaver be? In this course, you and I will take a practical and modern approach to answering these questions -- or at least learning why some questions are unanswerable! Dear writer - I'm Jim, founder of TigYog. Like you, I have fond childhood memories of learning from books. But they said that video was the future of learning. That today's kids won't read. I believed them, and lost months with green screens and video editing tools. Perhaps you did too. Well, they were wrong. The video course sucks. It's just a digitized lecture hall with blurry slideshows. The ultimate passive learning environment! At least with the book, you could decide when to think and when to turn the page. I believe writing is here to stay. But it needs modernizing for the way we teach and learn today. With TigYog, I've spent one year reimagining the textbook. It's less PDF, and more online course. Less end-of-chapter testing and more in-chapter puzzle-solving. Less one-way broadcast, more two-way conversation. Your readers will love you for it. And I think you'll love it too. Creating a course here is like writing in Word or Notion. So let's put away our green screens, and get back to our keyboards. Because the book is not dead. It just needed an upgrade. Jim Fisher's signature Jim Fisher, 2022 What is TigYog? It's like writing a book with ... A WYSIWYG editor just like Notion or Word. Type / to do anything. Screenshot of editor, using / to insert something Beautiful text and typography. Writing is humanity's best invention. Fire can't hold a candle to it. Screenshot of text with colored math Images for diagrams and illustrations. Supports SVGs. Optimizes images. Advanced dark mode. Screenshot of a diagram between some paragraphs Beautiful math with LATE X notation. (We even support macros!) Screenshot of equations with emojis Coming soon ... Markdown and git for writing, if you prefer that to WYSIWYGs. ... only, it's an interactive book with ... Buttons for questions, choices, and conversation. (Trust me, you only need multiple-choice! Tedious essay forthcoming.) Screenshot of buttons between paragraphs Responses show in response to buttons. Explain an answer, or take the reader down a different path. Screenshot of editing responses to buttons By default, a button is neutral. But you can mark it correct or incorrect with colors and sounds. Screenshot of editing button correctness No code. You're writing, not programming. No variables or debugging. Illustration of scribbled-out code Coming soon ... Seamless iframes let you build any other interactivity. Code blocks? Chess boards? Musical instruments? Go wild! ... and with the best bits of online courses: User management with social sign-in gives you a list of learners that have bought or subscribed. Screenshot of a button, "Sign In As Jim" Progress bars on each chapter and course. TigYog remembers and syncs readers' answers. (And no, editing doesn't break it!) Screenshot of a progress bar at 49% A landing page to describe and sell your course. Pre-sell your course before you actually write it. Screenshot of a button to buy a course Feedback from learners: they can select anything and send you a private comment. Screenshot of selected text, with a button under it labelled "Send feedback" Analytics show you where learners get stuck, bored or confused. Screenshot of buttons in editor showing number of readers that have clicked each button Coming soon ... Flashcards help your students remember using spaced repetition. Flashcards are embedded in your writing, not in a dislocated deck. Coming soon ... Certificates let your learners show off their progress on their CVs, etc. TigYog's publishing platform gives you Hosting for everything: text, images, payments, users, etc. You just write. Screenshot of button 'Publish changes' Payments to your bank account using Stripe. Five-minute setup. Screenshot of Stripe dashboard A flexible paywall to control how much of a chapter to show for free. Screenshot of paywall in chapter An email newsletter to contact your readers about new chapters or other updates. Screenshot of email from TigYog course Coming soon ... A custom domain like topology.tigyog.app gives your course a memorable home. And last but not least, there's Jim could be TigYog's best feature. I'll try to help with anything, even writing and promotion. Photo of Jim People seem to like TigYog "Lots of platforms wanted to convert my book Everyday Data Science into a course. But nothing felt right ... until TigYog came along with this fun unique format that perfectly suited my writing. Since then, Jim has helped at each step. He built features as I needed them, advised me writing, and helped with promotion. Now readers message me all the time saying how much they love the fun, interactive format. Oh, and I've earned thousands of dollars doing it! And it's still early days!" -- Andrew Carr, author of Everyday Data Science "I find myself irritated by how effective this method of instruction is. I'm not sure which is more annoying: going through years of education without these kinds of tutorials, or not having come up with this method myself, when it's so close to the dumbed-down edutainment software of the 90's. [I think that's a compliment? -- Jim] Every university course should start with at least a day of instruction written in this style." -- StrictDabbler, on Hacker News "We usually teach math so horribly wrong. I vote for the TigYog way: teaching with storytelling between the content and the learner. It feels like stacking Brilliant.org components on top of each other. I used to explain Thompson sampling to people by using an Excel model, but from now on I'm just sending them to TigYog!" -- Kurt Dicus, Portable Consultants Write your first course! Pricing You can use all features and hosting for free, forever. If you charge for your course, TigYog takes a 20% commission. No hidden fees: we only make money when you do. Get in touch to discuss other pricing options.