Today was a day that was at the lower scale of ok. First it was too hot. Then I had huge troubles with R. Everything worked smoothly…and then I ran into a problem I just couldn’t solve. Errors everywhere. I didn’t understand it. Normally, if something doesn’t work I go through the whole code and try to understand exactly what it is doing. But that didn’t help. I tried to rewrite it with two different functions, but it didn’t work either. I guess I could have done it with Python so much faster, but I really didn’t accept that it’s not possible in R. After two hours of first optimistic patience and then desperate misery, I did everything in Excel in 10min. Well. In the end, it turned out, the data I was working on isn’t even interesting. Sigh.
But there were some good things today, too. I got into census data and could actually download and work with exactly what I wanted, very quickly and smoothly, and got results so much faster than I hoped for.
Also, there was thunder and lightning today, and it was raining like crazy, which looked beautiful.
And I met with J and had a nice long walk with him, before he showed me what he had worked on in the last week (maps!).
Input? 3
Output? 4
Learnings?
Learn to love the outliers. Trend lines show what everybody is doing, but you can only learn from the outliers.
Questions?
On how much sleep per day do I function best?