Kieran Healy & Jonathan McPherson
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Kieran Healy is professor of sociology at Duke University in North Carolina. Much of his research has been about the social organization of exchange. His most recent book, The Ordinal Society ( https://theordinalsociety.com/, co-authored with Marion Fourcade), is about how the widespread availability of continuously-produced data about people has transformed how the world is organized. He is also the author of Data Visualization: A Practical Introduction (https://socviz.co/), which has helped a lot of people get started using ggplot2. (https://kieranhealy.org)
Jonathan is a software architect at Posit Software, PBC, working primarily on the Positron IDE. In the past he's worked on the RStudio IDE at Posit, Office at Microsoft, and web applications at a nuclear site in the desert.
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.
