One of the attractions of this WSJ competition is that it looks like
part of the idea is to assemble a team on the spot. I'm just not
confident that I could bring J to the effort and add much value in a
short time (about a day and a half) because of my uncertainty about
how I would be able to inte
First you need to define your scope.
What volume of traffic does your front end need to deal with (ideally, you
should have this right within a factor of 10, but for small projects the
estimate is probably not very important)?
What kind of information are you showing? (It's good to have a pencil
I'm hoping that I might be able to work as part of a team where others
can feed me information I can analyze. It would be nice to have or
understand what I need to be better integrated into a web-page front
end using J.
I do a primitive version of the preliminary work for something like
this when
That page took about 30 seconds to load, apparently because chrome decided
to sit for 30 seconds between loading the page and loading the first script
on that page (jQuery). Not really directly relevant, but I data
transparency has a lot of issues which do not seem directly relevant.
Anyways, the
This competition (and ones like it) - http://datatransparency.wsj.com/
- is something for which I'd like to use J but I'm afraid we're still
not ready for prime-time to use J for web-based development - at least
the GUI end of it.
Do people have thoughts on this?
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Devon McCormick, CFA
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