Ryan Timpe
Lead Data Scientist
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Ryan from LEGO joined us to chat about using LLMs to help with data science (and all the failures along the way), his recent talk at posit::conf(2025), and growing as a data scientist in the most unexpected ways.
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Ryan Timpe
Ryan is a Senior Data Scientist on the marketing effectiveness team at The LEGO Group. Previously, he worked in the consulting industry, sizing and forecasting markets for global technology companies. He has an M.A. and B.A. in Economics from Boston University. When he’s not geeking out over R projects and LEGO, you’ll find him giving dinosaur tours at the Peabody Museum of Natural History in New Haven, CT.
Libby Heeren
Data Community Manager at Posit, PBC
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.
Rachael Dempsey
Community Manager at Posit, PBC
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.