Wrap-up from DC Hack and Tell #3

Thursday June 19, 2014

I've been putting together these wrap-ups from Hack and Tell in DC for a while now. They go out to the meetup list and they're archived on github, but I like them so much I thought I'd put them here too. Working through the back-catalog:

DC Hack and Tell

Round 3: Hack... to the Future!

And now, a wrap-up... in random order!

• Mike showed the excellent audioverb for all your language in situ needs - and it even has a youtube explanation too!
• Aaron talked about rjstat, his R package for reading and writing the JSON-stat data format.
• Fearless leader Jonathan shared a classic Hack and Tell hack for decoding cryptograms using simple language models and SIMULATED ANNEALING! (I know, right?) It's called cryptosolver. We miss you, Jonathan!
• Bayan showed how to simulate fantasy football drafts/seasons in R to test theories and impress your friends! With a Prezi!
• Tom presented not just the JS live-coding mistakes.io but also super fun interactive statistics and simple-statistics!
• Aaron also showed this Guess the Letter thing. Oh my gosh there's a blog post.

And there will be even more good stuff coming soon... to the future!

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