survey_ratings_calculated_averages.txt

perl -we '@z = (
     3 +  7 +  7 +  8 +  9 +  9 + 10,
     1 +  5 +  6 +  7 +  8 + 10 + 10,
     3 +  5 +  7 +  9 +  9 + 10 + 10,
     7 +  8 +  9 +  9 + 10 + 10 + 10,
     3 +  5 +  8 +  9 +  9 + 10 + 10,
); printf "%5.2f\n", $_/7 for @z;'

 7.57  Quality of presentation materials?
 6.71  Your prior knowledge    of subject?
 7.57  Speaker's  presentation of subject?
 9.00  Speaker's  knowledge    of subject?
 7.71  Overall presentation rating?

YAPC::NA::2009_survey_results.txt

From: 	[email protected]
Subject: 	YAPC::NA 2009 - Talk & Tutorial Evaluations
Date: 	September 14, 2009 7:46:33 AM CDT
To: 	[email protected]

Hi,

In this email, please find the feedback received from the surveys available for YAPC::NA 2009. Ratings were from 1 to 10, where 1 is a low rating and 10 is high.


Command-line Perl:

-----------------------------------------------------------------------
| Choices           |  1 |  2 |  3 |  4 |  5 |  6 |  7 |  8 |  9 | 10 |
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
| Quality of presen |  - |  - |  1 |  - |  - |  - |  2 |  1 |  2 |  1 |
| Your prior knowle |  1 |  - |  - |  - |  1 |  1 |  1 |  1 |  - |  2 |
| Speaker's present |  - |  - |  1 |  - |  1 |  - |  1 |  - |  2 |  2 |
| Speaker's knowled |  - |  - |  - |  - |  - |  - |  1 |  1 |  2 |  3 |
| Overall presentat |  - |  - |  1 |  - |  1 |  - |  - |  1 |  2 |  2 |
-----------------------------------------------------------------------

Full Text of Choices:
* Quality of presentation materials?
* Your prior knowledge of subject?
* Speaker's presentation of subject?
* Speaker's knowledge of subject?
* Overall presentation rating?

How could the tutorial or presentation be improved?

* Examples at the end could not be run since they required specific
 input files that were unavailable to attendees/
* I was expecting some higher level content than what was provided. 
 The content was adequate, but my expectations were higher based upon
 the abstract.
* They weren't covered in the most logical order.  The
 interrelationship between -n -i and -p could have been significantly
 better.
 I'm not positive, but I don't think he ever got to -a, which is an
 option I use in 75% of my one-liners.

What aspects of the tutorial or presentation worked really well?

* Really loved the idea of a Y.pm personal module with common quick
 subs for use in one liners.
* That the examples could be easily typed in as the talk proceeded so
 you could try things out immeditaley.
* Useful tricks.  Thanks!
* Very good sequence of instructions. Even with no prior knowledge, I
 could follow most of the items because you built up information from
 one slide to another. This was also one of the few talks where code
 was actually explained instead of just "hey this is cool". I came
 away with desire to use command-line perl but also the *ability* to
 start using it. Great talk!
* went over the cmd line options.

Regards,
Barbie.