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His books are great, mainly as a collection of interesting examples, but I agree with you on his seminar. I was let down. Nothing that I would really complain a
by nilkn 13y ago
His books are great, mainly as a collection of interesting examples, but I agree with you on his seminar. I was let down. Nothing that I would really complain about since I didn't have to pay for it and it was really a day off work for me, but his seminar itself is not something I would pay money for.
I do think ESPN, weather.com, etc., are interesting examples because they have so much information to present, and it is nice that he was so forthcoming with concrete examples of what he holds up as great presentations of data. But I didn't find his analysis of them all that deep, and I think he made the fallacy of assuming that these sites are popular because of their presentation rather than, well, they're just websites of immensely well-known organizations. And weather.com is weather.com for God's sake--the URL alone guarantees readership.
- phy6 13y agoI had weather.gov written down in my notes, I think we also saw weather.com. Thanks for clarifying. I also went for 'free' but that was 8 hours I could have spent writing code or playing with D3. Did he also spend ~40 minutes ooh-ing over Google Image search? I remember seeing a bunch of blue sailboats or something and he was going on and on saying he prints out pages of google image search collages (except he had some artsy name that was more hipster than collage).