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Interactive course about “everyday” data science

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Re: Interactive course about “everyday” data science

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Post by jamesfisher »

yessirwhatever wrote: post #20

Interesting course. I'm not sure if you're affiliated with tigyog.app owners or not, but 20% commission on paid courses is too much. The platform looks neat and interesting, but I wouldn't pay 20% of whatever I'm charging for a course to be able to use a platform that self describes as a "blog with buttons".

Hi! I'm the solo developer of TigYog.app. I've been working with Andrew to build out the course. What percentage would you consider appropriate? It's set at 20% essentially because I have rent and bills to pay :-)

Re: Interactive course about “everyday” data science

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Post by civilized »

This is not intended as a criticism and, as an experienced data scientist, I'm probably not the target audience anyway. But just... how this hits me. There is a LOT of visual "decoration" and sales-y, pitchy stuff here that makes my eyes/brain glaze over from too much emotional stimulation. Maybe it has the opposite effect for others.

Re: Interactive course about “everyday” data science

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Post by Uyuxo »

MathYouF wrote: post #19
boredemployee wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Since you have such amount of free time, what about taking advantage of that and make a real contribution and proper feedback to this post.

I invited more positive and productive discussion on the advertised topic: >"I'd enjoy hearing some concrete discussion of what unique vision you have for improving the intuition of people trying to do data science , and how this helps humanity, and your journey beyond A/B testing marketing techniques. So far i've not received it from any replies (including yours) and haven't seen it happen in any other comment threa…

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Re: Interactive course about “everyday” data science

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Post by jamesfisher »

civilized wrote: post #22

This is not intended as a criticism and, as an experienced data scientist, I'm probably not the target audience anyway. But just... how this hits me. There is a LOT of visual "decoration" and sales-y, pitchy stuff here that makes my eyes/brain glaze over from too much emotional stimulation. Maybe it has the opposite effect for others.

Hi! What are the main things you'd remove? E.g. maybe we've gone too heavy with the illustrations, or sounds?

Re: Interactive course about “everyday” data science

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Post by boredemployee »

MathYouF wrote: post #19
boredemployee wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Since you have such amount of free time, what about taking advantage of that and make a real contribution and proper feedback to this post.

I invited more positive and productive discussion on the advertised topic: >"I'd enjoy hearing some concrete discussion of what unique vision you have for improving the intuition of people trying to do data science , and how this helps humanity, and your journey beyond A/B testing marketing techniques. So far i've not received it from any replies (including yours) and haven't seen it happen in any other comment threa…

whatever you say my man

Re: Interactive course about “everyday” data science

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Post by yessirwhatever »

jamesfisher wrote: post #21
yessirwhatever wrote: post #20

Interesting course. I'm not sure if you're affiliated with tigyog.app owners or not, but 20% commission on paid courses is too much. The platform looks neat and interesting, but I wouldn't pay 20% of whatever I'm charging for a course to be able to use a platform that self describes as a "blog with buttons".

Hi! I'm the solo developer of TigYog.app. I've been working with Andrew to build out the course. What percentage would you consider appropriate? It's set at 20% essentially because I have rent and bills to pay :-)

I get that, and I wish you the best with it. It's definitely interesting like I said. I'm not sure what financial model would make it seem less intimidating, but I'd imagine as a indie course-maker-on-the-side it'd be too expensive. Maybe a different pricing scheme for corporations.

Re: Interactive course about “everyday” data science

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Post by heyhihello »

I actually bought your book on Amazon and the book I received was insanely disappointing. Full of typo’s, super wonky formatting, super short in depth and content, and the paper book was the lowest quality of any I’ve ever received from Amazon.

I didn’t leave a review because There weren’t many and I didn’t want to sour your sales with a 1-star, but I now kind of regret that.

The course looks cool, but it honestly just feels like a monetizing attempt on something that really didn’t deserve much money to begin with.

Re: Interactive course about “everyday” data science

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Post by pcthrowaway »

jamesfisher wrote: post #21
yessirwhatever wrote: post #20

Interesting course. I'm not sure if you're affiliated with tigyog.app owners or not, but 20% commission on paid courses is too much. The platform looks neat and interesting, but I wouldn't pay 20% of whatever I'm charging for a course to be able to use a platform that self describes as a "blog with buttons".

Hi! I'm the solo developer of TigYog.app. I've been working with Andrew to build out the course. What percentage would you consider appropriate? It's set at 20% essentially because I have rent and bills to pay :-)

(not the person you're responding to) If you're offering free, perpetual hosting, I think it's worth 20% of sales for the creator (who doesn't know if they're even going to sell much, or if the material will become outdated and stop selling in a few years)

I wondered how the creator of this course could guarantee the course would be available forever, and what a headache it must be to continue to maintain the hosting/content if sales taper off. Outsourcing that job to a service which is hosting many such courses (and with new ones continually added) makes a lot more sense here, and of course you have bills to pay too. That 20% commission isn't just covering the cost of time you put into the course builder and hosting now, it covers hosting in perpetuity.

Re: Interactive course about “everyday” data science

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Post by civilized »

jamesfisher wrote: post #24
civilized wrote: post #22

This is not intended as a criticism and, as an experienced data scientist, I'm probably not the target audience anyway. But just... how this hits me. There is a LOT of visual "decoration" and sales-y, pitchy stuff here that makes my eyes/brain glaze over from too much emotional stimulation. Maybe it has the opposite effect for others.

Hi! What are the main things you'd remove? E.g. maybe we've gone too heavy with the illustrations, or sounds?

...everything from the emojis on up? I think it's just not my vibe. But I'm sure you've done it this way because it works for a lot of other people.
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