In Part 1 of our conversation with James Blair, we trace his delightfully non-linear path from childhood robotics dreams to journalism to R, with a few stops in between. We hear about the Shiny app that changed his career, plus a candid roundtable with Michael, Hadley, and Wes about whether a data-science master’s still pays off in the age of AI. Episode notes This is a story about staying hands-on and fiercely inquisitive — whether analyzing bike telemetry or in teaching data science. Jame...
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In Part 1 of our conversation with James Blair, we trace his delightfully non-linear path from childhood robotics dreams to journalism to R, with a few stops in between. We hear about the Shiny app that changed his career, plus a candid roundtable with Michael, Hadley, and Wes about whether a data-science master’s still pays off in the age of AI. Episode notes This is a story about staying hands-on and fiercely inquisitive — whether analyzing bike telemetry or in teaching data science. Jame...
Roger Peng: Sustaining data science — in classrooms, code, and conversations
The Test Set by Posit
45 minutes
2 months ago
Roger Peng: Sustaining data science — in classrooms, code, and conversations
Michael, Hadley, and Wes welcome Roger Peng, professor of statistics and data science at UT Austin and co-host of Not So Standard Deviations. Together they trace Roger’s journey from early R adopter to pioneering online educator and prolific podcaster. The conversation ranges from the accidental rise of “data science” as a field, to the tension between research papers and software maintenance, to what makes for meaningful, lasting creative work. What’s Inside: Roger’s first analysis project a...
The Test Set by Posit
In Part 1 of our conversation with James Blair, we trace his delightfully non-linear path from childhood robotics dreams to journalism to R, with a few stops in between. We hear about the Shiny app that changed his career, plus a candid roundtable with Michael, Hadley, and Wes about whether a data-science master’s still pays off in the age of AI. Episode notes This is a story about staying hands-on and fiercely inquisitive — whether analyzing bike telemetry or in teaching data science. Jame...
