Glad you liked it. Yeah, my R is a little rusty but hopefully you got the general idea of gathering stats and then tracking them to see if you can improve them.
Yes, certainly. I'm also very glad to pay money for this type of thing because, for whatever human reason, screencasts click with me and I retain a lot from them compared to reading.
Re:Play by Play: Zed Shaw
by moondowner on Friday April 29, 2011 @01:26PM
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The ACL is Dead is the best video from Zed I've seen so far. It's also a must watch for every young programmer/student, Zed provides insight how things in most of the big companies work.
I enjoyed it, but it wasn't as professional and dense as I expected from the description. The edition is a little bit rough, cutting the video when they are talking, etc. But the advice given was very sound and Zed is a really nice teacher/guy.
(Different type of thing, but here's the best Zed video I've seen: http://vimeo.com/2723800)*
Great talk! I really enjoyed how you explained where the business people are coming from, described the pains of being an engineer to the crowd, and then tried to describe a middle path. Very enlightened.
Rather than the approach to hacking together this specific prototype, the more general nuggets of advice were (predictably) the good stuff.
Seeing the Python part being built up at fairly high speed was interesting, but the R part was a bit fumbling and the graphs nonsensical (both because it was essentially random data, and you didn't even know what the Python part was doing at that point in the video).
(Different type of thing, but here's the best Zed video I've seen: http://vimeo.com/2723800)