The unreasonable effectiveness of public work
summary
A concrete case for publishing: answering one overlooked Stack Overflow question about the beta distribution leads to an interview and a job; a blog post using NLP finds more than a million fake net neutrality comments and gets national coverage; open source work (broom, gganimate, fuzzyjoin, tidytext) grows into usable projects, one repo attracts 200 pull requests and is handed to a full‑time maintainer; practical outputs recommended are blog posts, open source packages, screencasts, talks, and books built with bookdown.
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chapters (53)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:25The first question on Stack Overflow
- 1:23The first engineer at Stack Overflow
- 1:45The effect of wow
- 2:18Goals
- 2:37First approximation useless
- 3:32Types of sharing
- 4:08Advance your career
- 4:37Practice good habits
- 5:05Disclaimer
- 5:51Other ways to succeed
- 6:22Building a public portfolio
- 6:57Blogging
- 8:19The extraordinary blog down
- 8:51Advice to aspiring data scientists
- 9:34What can I blog about
- 10:22Jeff Cao
- 11:38Muhammad
- 12:15Heather Jaclyn
- 12:36Data Blog
- 12:50Twitter
- 13:06Critters
- 13:29Dev advent calendar
- 14:01Data analysis
- 14:30Live tweeting
- 14:50Brooke Watson
- 15:26Paige Bailey
- 17:51Nick Crane
- 18:16Beginnerfriendly issues
- 18:35Create a package
- 19:12Book our packages
- 19:24Give talks
- 19:36This is not a tutorial
- 20:14Emilys advice
- 21:03Kevins advice
- 21:42Places to speak
- 22:30Sharing your talk
- 23:27screencasts
- 24:15teaching tricks
- 25:00screencast limitations
- 25:26GGAnimate
- 25:43Kaggle
- 26:34ebooks count
- 26:46A round of applause
- 26:58Write a book
- 27:31Short form communication
- 28:13Julia Silky
- 29:15Bookdown
- 30:02Im somewhat aggressive
- 30:26Resources
- 30:50The unreasonable effectiveness of public work
- 31:34Getting your work out there
- 32:51Question
