Jenny Bryan

Jenny has been a keen user of R (or its predecessor, S) for over 25 years. She's on her 3rd career, as a software engineer at Posit, on the tidyverse and Positron teams. Before that she was an Associate Professor of Statistics at the University of British Columbia. She is the creator of packages such as reprex, googledrive, googlesheets4, and gapminder, and the current maintainer of packages such as usethis, readxl, devtools, and readr. She takes special delight in eliminating the small agonies of data analysis, by improving the tools and the ways we use them.

I'm a data science educator and community builder who wants to help you cultivate a community of practice for yourself. I talk a lot about the benefits of making genuine human connections, the power of vulnerability, and why we all benefit when we show up as our whole selves. I'm also the host of the Data Humans podcast where my motto is: data science is not one thing.

I love connecting people across the data science community to share what they're accomplishing with data and help others do the same through community discussions, industry meetups, and more.