thauck

I've authored a Packt book - it isn't of high quality.

It was a good experience, but they don't provide the resources needed (help and monetarily) for doing good work.

There's a lot of claims (and rightfully so) about the right losing the demographic game to the left. If there's one area where the right may be on the "right" side with young people is privacy.

Big opportunity for them if they play this correctly.

Analysts in finance/consulting certainly haven't had to upgrade their skills, but analysts in media/marketing definitely have had to.

Certainly there are people in this space who can't do much beyond spreadsheets, but there are many analyst now who use python/pandas or R to do work.

A few projects now have a "good as a first PR" tag for issues... This is great for helping people get started.

Fernando Perez (the force behind IPython) has done several in depth tutorials at various pydata confs... I'd start there.

Thanks for this working on this project. I've used it before with success.

I don't think python on hadoop is the answer for complex map/reduce jobs, but this project has fit an niche for me.

This is my biggest gripe, otherwise I like it. Visually the design is pretty, but in terms of representing information it leaves a lot to be desired.

As always, it's how it's presented that matters.

I always ask for general demographic information when I interview with a company. It isn't about being sexist (well maybe it is against men)... I just don't want to work with a bunch of mid-20s white males. Not enough diversity of thought.

Disclosure: I'm a mid-20s white male.

At this point, I might argue for IPython Notebook.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the only reason the matrix being sparse is mentioned is because the author stuck a bunch of 0s in the matrices... this solution should work regardless of the sparsity.

Like has been mentioned by many, this is incorrect interpretation... and quite common to see on blogs or single page sites. Although technically it's not dependent pageviews, but interactions (so pageviews or events).

So, one common way to handle this on blogs is to use setTimeout in conjunction with an event. Basically you fire an event after 15 or so sections which will then count as an interaction.