Every Thursday at 12 pm ET

Data Science Hangout

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Upcoming episodes

Adrian Perez
08
Jan 2026
Adrian Perez
Join us with Adrian from GitLab to chat about building people analytics teams, collaborating with engineers and business leaders, and creating dashboards that actually help people.
Mine Cetinkaya-Rundel
15
Jan 2026
Mine Cetinkaya-Rundel
Join us with Dr. Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel to explore her work advancing data science education, her passion for empowering and inspiring new learners through hands-on data exploration with R, and her journey as a leading educator and advocate for open, reproducible data science.
Allissa Dillman
22
Jan 2026
Allissa Dillman
Join us with Allissa at BioData Sage to ask her about building inclusive learning programs, running successful and engaging hackathons, and making data approachable for everyone.

ABOUT DATA SCIENCE HANGOUT

Helping data science leaders grow together

We’ve built a group of data scientists that celebrate what it means to be a leader. We prioritize representation from all different industries, genders, ethnicities, backgrounds, and years of experience.

It doesn’t matter how long you’ve been in the data science game — your title, background, or education either.

What does matter is that you’re passionate about learning, celebrating diverse perspectives, and raising the bar for what it means to be a data scientist.

So join with an open mind, an appetite to learn, and if you’re up to the challenge, something to contribute to your fellow data scientists.

When you grow, we grow.
Hope to see you there!

What happens in a Data Science Hangout?

Each week, host Rachael Dempsey invites an accomplished data science leader to talk about their experience and answer questions from the audience.

The discussion focuses mainly on the human elements of data science leadership. There’s no sales or marketing fluff, just great insights from inspiring professionals.

Featured speakers

Interested in leading a Data Science Hangout?
Send Rachael Dempsey an email at

rachael@posit.co

or add her on LinkedIn

Customer Stories

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Brown-Forman

Posit tools allowed our statisticians and data scientists to turn into application developers and data engineers without learning any new languages or computer science skills.

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BioBuilder

The COVID-induced changes in education led BioBuilder to reimagine its curriculum.

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City of Reykjavik

The data science team in the city of Reykjavík, Iceland is using Posit Connect to impact the citizens of their city, one Shiny app at a time.

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AstraZeneca

Training & empowering more than 1,100 R users at AstraZeneca

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PING

At PING, a small team of engineers, technologists, and data scientists harness the power of Posit Connect to democratize golf through data insights with a dynamic new user-facing application.

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Stack Overflow

Posit Connect has reduced the frustrations and increased the effectiveness for all of us on the data team at Stack Overflow. It's been a game changer for communicating the results of our analyses and modeling!

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