What can be better next year? about pycar

[robroc]

One quick thought: we could update the HTML table used in the scraping portion. That 2015 table hosted on S3 is looking pretty dated.

[tommeagher]

@robroc, this is a good idea. I think we can fairly easily freshen that data with more recent films from the same source.

[thejqs]

Little bit of feedback I got was that we spent a lot of time explaining at the expense of helping them build up some muscle memory. (I'm paraphrasing.)

Almost all of us have helped with PyCAR more than once, and I found myself wondering, too, whether I spent too much energy anticipating problems and trying to pre-explain them out of existence instead of letting things happen more as learning-by-doing moments. It felt like they raised their hands for help less this year and that that might be a byproduct of less typing.

I'd be interested to hear what y'all thought about that.