This was a challenge and I’m proud of how I approached it. Most of my friends and family know that “I’m a programmer”, but they have no idea what I do. I made a video that takes a non-technical person through python, numpy, matplotlib, pandas and jupyter in a very concise way so that I can show my data table built on top of those projects.
How do you explain your projects to non-technical loved ones?
I think it’s very worthwhile to work to explain your work. What’s your niche? Give it a try here.
I really want to make individual videos explaining NumPy, pandas, Matplotlib, Jupyter and polars to programmers. Not explaining how to sue them, but a quick overview of what they are capable of in the hands of an experienced practitioner. I have worked at a couple of places where the devs only know Node/Typescript, there’s a lot going on outside of that world.
“I help make sure that servers keep running while we’re asleep, as well as when we’re awake. Usually I succeed.” They usually don’t ask more than that.
At a certain level I don’t think they need to fully understand things. I love it when someone close to me geeks out over their hobby and gets excited explaining it to me, even if at the end of the day I probably won’t fully understand it.
All this is within reason of course, I knew someone that would talk nonstop for 15+ min about Dungeons & Dragons and even though I play it, those conversations were still exhausting.
This was a challenge and I’m proud of how I approached it. Most of my friends and family know that “I’m a programmer”, but they have no idea what I do. I made a video that takes a non-technical person through python, numpy, matplotlib, pandas and jupyter in a very concise way so that I can show my data table built on top of those projects.
How do you explain your projects to non-technical loved ones?
Geeze I struggle to explain my niche to other programmers, I’ve given up on trying to explain it to nontechnical people.
Does this make you feel lonely? I spent a couple of years working alone on a graph synchronization protocol and the loneliness was brutal…
I think it’s very worthwhile to work to explain your work. What’s your niche? Give it a try here.
I really want to make individual videos explaining NumPy, pandas, Matplotlib, Jupyter and polars to programmers. Not explaining how to sue them, but a quick overview of what they are capable of in the hands of an experienced practitioner. I have worked at a couple of places where the devs only know Node/Typescript, there’s a lot going on outside of that world.
“I help make sure that servers keep running while we’re asleep, as well as when we’re awake. Usually I succeed.” They usually don’t ask more than that.
At a certain level I don’t think they need to fully understand things. I love it when someone close to me geeks out over their hobby and gets excited explaining it to me, even if at the end of the day I probably won’t fully understand it.
All this is within reason of course, I knew someone that would talk nonstop for 15+ min about Dungeons & Dragons and even though I play it, those conversations were still exhausting.