Walk through request

[divenpuke]

Newb here.
A quick walkthrough of something like the Chocolate Chip cookie recipe optimization INCLUDING INSTALL OF everything would be really really really useful. This has been really painful to try to figure out how to get this going and I still don't feel like I'm even that close.

I attended a talk on this about 2 years ago at Google X was told this "should" be easy enough for even a dumb mechanical engineer.

[tobegit3hub]

Yes, that should be easy to developers to use this.

Does that help if we add more documentation about installing, usage and demos about this project? @divenpuke

[divenpuke]

@tobegit3hub
Can someone please make this for me? I'm very frustrated and over my head.
I've been working on trying to get this working for many hours.

Background:
I'm trying to run an optimization very similar to the chocolate chip cookie recipe.
Roughly 5 variables w/ noisy data. There's like a couple hundred data points total. Is google vizier (Advisor on Github) the right thing for me to even be trying to use?

I'm a mechanical engineer. Degree in Mechatronic engineering.

I attended a talk on Google's Vizier several years ago as a contractor. The guy there insisted I would only need to know a few lines of python to get it going and he presented several examples of problems that it would be perfect for (chocolate chip cookies, NACA wing sections, etc). It seems really cool. I'm no longer a contractor at Google and can't really just go bug the insanely smart guy that developed this thing.

I was originally a computer science major in college ~18 years ago, (3 semesters of C, classes in assembly, HTML, but no python or bash or git) but haven't touched any code in ~12 years.

The readmes are all weird and don't seem to work when I try to follow their instructions.
I can find examples of the python source file, but I can't even find an example of the data. Or the format the data should be in. So...like a CSV? I see example code, but, not like, example input files.

I've got Python 2.7 and 3.newest version installed. I think. It seems to work w/ a tool we use here at my work. (JSPLOT)

I've got some kind of git bash thing installed that sure looks a lot like DOS. Dunno wtf that does that DOS doesn't except that the readmes all say "bash" this and "bash" that.
I think I found something to "install" the documentation and I installed it...but it didn't seem to work after that.

I think I've got most of it installed, but I can't get the bloody adviser server thing to work...

This all just seems like the hard way to do this. People maybe don't use Windows for things like this?

I don't know if I should be posting my problems here or somewhere else?

I'm such a newb I feel like I need to take basic courses on stuff just to figure out wth a json is or a skopt.