2018-03-05
Fireside Chat: R In Industry Discussion
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Eduardo Ariño de la Rubia
Technologist and Data Scientist driven to create software that people use, find useful, and pleasant. From programming through architecture, from green field to maintenance, software is interesting technologically, socially, and intellectually. I enjoy contributing to the process, either through leadership or individual effort, of creating software that is deployed joyfully and is as bug free as possible
Tanya Cashorali
CEO & Founder at TCB Analytics
Passionate about playing with data but using it for good causes whenever possible. Energized by working with ambitious people on difficult problems.
Eric Colson
Eric Colson is the Chief Algorithms Officer at Stitch Fix, where he specializes in social algorithms. He is also an advisor at Earnest (consumer lending), Data Elite (Big Data incubator), and Mortar Data (Big Data Platform). Previously, he was VP of Data Science & Engineering at Netflix and has held analytical positions at Yahoo!, Blue Martini, Proxicom and Information Resources. He holds a B.A. in Economics (SFSU), a M.S. in Information Systems (GGU), and a M.S. in Management Science & Engineering (Stanford).
Elaine McVey
VP of Data Science at the Looma Project
She specializes in building the strategic plan, initial team, and key infrastructure needed to establish the data function at startups.
David Robinson
David is the Chief Data Scientist at DataCamp, an education company for teaching data science through interactive online courses. His interests include statistics, data analysis, education, and programming in R.
David is co-author with Julia Silge of the tidytext package and the O’Reilly book Text Mining with R. He also the author of the broom, gganimate, and fuzzyjoin packages, and of the e-book Introduction to Empirical Bayes.
David previously worked as a data scientist at Stack Overflow, and received a PhD in Quantitative and Computational Biology from Princeton University.
David is co-author with Julia Silge of the tidytext package and the O’Reilly book Text Mining with R. He also the author of the broom, gganimate, and fuzzyjoin packages, and of the e-book Introduction to Empirical Bayes.
David previously worked as a data scientist at Stack Overflow, and received a PhD in Quantitative and Computational Biology from Princeton University.
Tareef Kawaf
CEO at Posit, PBC
Tareef Kawaf has been leading Posit Software, PBC (formerly RStudio, PBC) for over 13 years. Posit is committed to creating a self-sustaining organization that significantly advances open-source tools for enhancing human knowledge. Posit’s commercial products are utilized by thousands of organizations. More broadly, Posit’s data science toolchain, based on open-source, is used to extract and share data insights in production environments, while millions of users rely on the open-source tools and libraries it maintains. In 2019, Posit transitioned from a C-Corp to a Public Benefit Corporation to align with its long-term vision of creating an organization that can consistently drive a positive impact for the long term (preferably 100 years).