Hadley Wickham

Tidyverse, ggplot2, and the secret to a tech company’s longevity: Hadley Wickham talks to Jon Krohn about Posit’s rebrand, Tidyverse and why it needs to be in every data scientist’s toolkit, and why getting your hands dirty with open-source projects can be so lucrative for your career. This episode is brought to you by Intel and HPE Ezmeral Software. Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Visit passionfroot.me/superdatascience for sponsorship information. In this episode you will learn: • All about the Tidyverse [04:46] • Hadley’s favorite R libraries [17:10] • The goal of Posit [30:29] • On bringing multiple programming languages together [36:02] • The principles for a long-lasting tech company [52:10] • How Hadley developed ggplot2 [55:24] • How to contribute to the open-source community [1:05:43] Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/779

Hadley Wickham

Chief Scientist

PositRStudio

Hadley Wickham, a huge presence in data science, sits down to talk about R, Python, and the future of potential integrations, as well as some Q&A with our listeners through LinkedIn about programming languages and how to make data science accessible for all. In this episode you will learn: Hadley’s R packages [8:26] Better integrations between R and Python [20:11] LinkedIn Q&A [33:34] useR Conference vs. RStudio Conference [50:46] LinkedIn Q&A: Career-related questions [1:01:06] LinkedIn Q&A: Future-related questions [1:08:01] Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/337

Hadley Wickham

Chief Scientist

PositRStudio