tips
A place for shared wisdom.
This page is for the class to curate time saving tips and gotchas they found that are worth sharing with the rest of us.
I use this great utility called spark on command line to quickly check the nature of my variable, specifically how many bumps it has
General examples and how to documentation are available at spark website and spark source pages.
Here is my specific example:
$ awk -F "," '{print $12/10000 }' dataset.csv | spark
which looks for the 12th column in my csv dataset and pipes them to spark
As we would be using terminal/command line a lot, a good investment of time could be configuring your Terminal which might help in future.
These are called dotfile configurations. Github curates some wonderful dotfile collections
You would save yourself a ton of time in future if you learn your editor, whichever you prefer.
Here are 2 that I refer to, and please feel free to add your own for the rest of us.