Richard Iannone & Michael Chow

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.

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.

Richard is a software engineer and table enthusiast. He and R go way back and he's been getting better at writing code in Python too. For the most part, Rich enjoys creating open source packages in R and Python so that people can do great things in their own work.

Michael is a data science tool builder at Posit, where he works on open source tools for data analysis. He received a Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from Princeton University, and is interested in what drives expert data science performance. When not wrangling data, you can find him in Philly writing tiny poems, baking bread, and embroidering.