An interactive, game-based web experience showing how statistics and optimisation drive real-world decisions.
Built for Curtin Open Day， 2026.
This is not a traditional webpage — it’s a hands-on interactive experience.
Visitors can:
- Make decisions in a simple real-world scenario
- See how outcomes change
- Learn how data improves decisions
Core idea:
From guessing → data → insight → optimisation
A short interactive game where users:
- Choose what to sell
- Observe customer behaviour
- Learn from data
- Adjust their strategy
- Improve performance over time
This demo introduces key ideas from statistics and optimisation:
- Data collection
- Uncertainty
- Statistical insight
- Exploration vs exploitation
- Decision optimisation
Statistics is not just mathematics —
it’s about making better decisions in uncertain environments.
This experience shows how data is used in:
- business
- healthcare
- technology
- everyday decision-making
🔗 Website:
https://stat-opt-demo.netlify.app/
📷 Scan the QR code to play:
Zhanglong Cao
Lecturer, Curtin University