Pharmaceutical machine learning with tidymodels and Posit Connect

Simon Couch is a software engineer at Posit PBC where he works on tidymodels, a collection of open-source R packages for statistical modeling. With an academic background in statistics and sociology, Simon believes that principled tooling has a profound impact on our ability to think intuitively and rigorously about data science.

Max Kuhn is a software engineer at Posit (née RStudio). He is working on improving R's modeling capabilities and maintaining about 30 packages, including caret. He was a Senior Director of Nonclinical Statistics at Pfizer and had been applying models in the pharmaceutical and diagnostic industries for over 18 years. Max has a Ph.D. in Biostatistics. He, and Kjell Johnson, wrote the book Applied Predictive Modeling, which won the Ziegel award from the American Statistical Association. Their second book, Feature Engineering and Selection, was published in 2019, and his book Tidy Models with R, was published in 2022.