Comments for Borasky Research Journal http://borasky-research.net Open Source Computational Journalism Tools Sun, 20 May 2012 22:12:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Comment on If That’s What Solution Journalism Is, Then Sign Me Up! by If That’s What Solution Journalism Is, Then Sign Me Up! » Borasky Research Journal | Computational and Data Journalism | Scoop.it http://borasky-research.net/2012/05/20/if-thats-what-solution-journalism-is-then-sign-me-up/#comment-130 If That’s What Solution Journalism Is, Then Sign Me Up! » Borasky Research Journal | Computational and Data Journalism | Scoop.it Sun, 20 May 2012 22:12:13 +0000 http://borasky-research.net/?p=3102#comment-130 [...] borasky-research.net - Today, 4:12 PM [...] [...] borasky-research.net – Today, 4:12 PM [...]

]]> Comment on What Hath Von Neumann Wrought? by If That’s What Solution Journalism Is, Then Sign Me Up! » Borasky Research Journal http://borasky-research.net/2012/05/06/what-hath-von-neumann-wrought/#comment-129 If That’s What Solution Journalism Is, Then Sign Me Up! » Borasky Research Journal Sun, 20 May 2012 22:07:05 +0000 http://borasky-research.net/?p=2851#comment-129 [...] code to provide solutions to the problems they’ve been able to articulate in a suitable form. Journalism was actually my second choice career – if I hadn’t been “born to program”, I would have been a science journalist, or perhaps a [...] [...] code to provide solutions to the problems they’ve been able to articulate in a suitable form. Journalism was actually my second choice career – if I hadn’t been “born to program”, I would have been a science journalist, or perhaps a [...]

]]> Comment on “Please Don’t Learn to Code” – Cybercrud At Its Worst by M. Edward (Ed) Borasky http://borasky-research.net/2012/05/18/please-dont-learn-to-code-cybercrud-at-its-worst/#comment-128 M. Edward (Ed) Borasky Sun, 20 May 2012 05:43:00 +0000 http://borasky-research.net/?p=3064#comment-128 I was shocked by how easy it was for me. But once I got out into the real world I discovered there were many other programmers who said the same thing. The basic logic of imperative programming can be learned in a few weeks worst case. Yes, the applications take longer, especially scientific and statistical computing, but the logic part of it isn't a huge learning curve. That's part of the genius of Von Neumann - he made the architecture very simple. If our computers had been based on Turing's or Zuse's or even Church / McCarthy foundations, it would be *much* harder to pick up. I was shocked by how easy it was for me. But once I got out into the real world I discovered there were many other programmers who said the same thing. The basic logic of imperative programming can be learned in a few weeks worst case. Yes, the applications take longer, especially scientific and statistical computing, but the logic part of it isn’t a huge learning curve.

That’s part of the genius of Von Neumann – he made the architecture very simple. If our computers had been based on Turing’s or Zuse’s or even Church / McCarthy foundations, it would be *much* harder to pick up.

]]> Comment on “Please Don’t Learn to Code” – Cybercrud At Its Worst by AnnMaria http://borasky-research.net/2012/05/18/please-dont-learn-to-code-cybercrud-at-its-worst/#comment-127 AnnMaria Sun, 20 May 2012 05:07:00 +0000 http://borasky-research.net/?p=3064#comment-127 Interesting. I'd say I'm a really, really good statistical programmer. A lot of that comes from knowing a random versus fixed effect, a Poisson vs Gaussian distribution and not at all to do with coding. One the other hand I do a lot of data clean up and parsing text so I'd have to say it took me more than 1,000 hours to learn to be as good as I am now even at just the coding part Interesting. I’d say I’m a really, really good statistical programmer. A lot of that comes from knowing a random versus fixed effect, a Poisson vs Gaussian distribution and not at all to do with coding. One the other hand I do a lot of data clean up and parsing text so I’d have to say it took me more than 1,000 hours to learn to be as good as I am now even at just the coding part

]]> Comment on Stanford University Campaign Finance #Datafest Resources (Updated 2012-05-20) by Stanford University Campaign Finance #Datafest Resources » Borasky Research Journal | Social Media Analytics and US Politics | Scoop.it http://borasky-research.net/2012/05/19/stanford-university-datafest-resources/#comment-126 Stanford University Campaign Finance #Datafest Resources » Borasky Research Journal | Social Media Analytics and US Politics | Scoop.it Sat, 19 May 2012 20:41:17 +0000 http://borasky-research.net/?p=3094#comment-126 [...] borasky-research.net - Today, 2:41 PM [...] [...] borasky-research.net – Today, 2:41 PM [...]

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