Feedback from first look at tutorial

[paddymul]

Really nice work on the tutorial. I recorded a video of me going through it, my first time playing with Visidata. It's very stream of conciousness.

A couple of thoughts:

1. I'm sorry I got Saul's name wrong so many times.
2. it all made sense, I even played a bit and did the next step as a natural wondering on my own, then I scrolled down and read those exact instructions
3. The visidata has no visual affordance for where you are in the editting or entering of commands. I got lost a couple of times ( this is a comment about visidata)
4. q works naturally and surprisingly well.
5. I got lost about the known vs unknown named sheet. I thought the search term was for unknown rows, then you named the sheet "known rows"
6. renaming column didn't work as expected,
7. I got lost at https://jsvine.github.io/intro-to-visidata/practical/distinctive-birds/#count-the-number-of-collisions-per-state-and-species

I hope this is useful. Great work!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbvzVvAYssU&t=8s

[jsvine]

Thanks for sharing this, and for the feedback! I'm planning to update the tutorial to sync it with VisiData's update to v3. I'll review these notes again when I'm doing that revision.

[jsvine]

Thanks again, Andy! I've now updated the tutorial for v3.x, including fixing the part where you got lost. (That was caused by a bug in v3.x, which is in the process of getting fixed; in the meantime, I've tweaked the tutorial to work around it.)

Re. the part about known vs. unknown, does pointing to this part help clarify things?:

[paddymul]

I'm glad it was helpful. I filmed this a while ago so I don't remember the place that I got confused. I'll try to go through it again at some point next week if you want.

[jsvine]

No obligation to go through again, but thanks if you end up doing so anyway!