On the practical level, I’m interested in using scripts as a way to tailor the applications that we use to interpret the (sometimes huge) amounts of data that we have. And though it’s impossible to learn any programming language in a single 1-2 hour session, I think it would be helpful for those of us who have had to deal with repetitive, but labor-intensive processes to know of all of the alternatives.
Nov 12
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David Dwiggins
November 12, 2010 at 7:13 pm (UTC 0) Link to this comment
This might be interesting as a sort of “stump the chumps” exercise. If folks could come up with particular examples of data problems, a panel could then weigh in on the best ways to approach the particular cases. (This would likely lead to some interesting other discussions about best practices.)