It’s not as bad as you might think if you have a specific goal in mind. My scope is mainly scripts and automation (python) for data analysis and productivity.

My boss was curious about market basket analysis so I spent an afternoon following along with a tutorial and researching and got the data I needed by EOD. Most of that time was cleaning up the input data and troubleshooting because it was a huge data set.

I like how open it is, their git is pretty active and we get updates almost daily.

I do things probably the stupidest way imaginable and find someone’s git project using a library I need to use and see how they used it.

People that release libraries with demos and use cases are angels, in my eyes at least.

When they don’t inherit the traits you want so you kill your children and start over.