A Posit video
podcast series for
data science
OUR HOSTS

Principal Software Engineer, Posit
Michael Chow

Chief Scientist, Posit
Hadley Wickham

Principal Architect, Posit
Wes McKinney
Episode 3
Episode 1: Spreadsheets, bikes, and the accidental empire of R packages
Wes McKinney: Part 1 Building Pandas, Arrow, and a speedrunning legacy
Wes McKinney: Part 2 The open source hustle and an insider view of Positron
In Part 2 of our conversation with Wes McKinney, we go beyond the code and into the mission-driven world of open source funding, community-building, and product strategy. Wes talks about what it takes to make critical tools like Arrow sustainable — from pitching to mavericks at Two Sigma to navigating the politics of Apache Software Foundation governance. Also, Wes gives a peek behind the curtain on the origins of Positron. And, yeah, metal.
UPCOMING EPISODES

EPISODE 3
Wes Mckinney: Part 2 — Funding the Future of Open Source, what’s next
In Part 2 of our conversation with Wes McKinney, we go beyond the code and into the complicated, mission-driven world of open source funding, community-building, and product strategy. Wes talks about what it takes to make critical tools like Arrow sustainable — from pitching to mavericks at Two Sigma to navigating the politics of Apache Software Foundation governance. Also, metal.

EPISODE 4
Roger Peng: Impact takes time, and it’s totally worth it
Roger Peng is a professor of Statistics and Data Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin, and he’s also the host of a popular data science podcast, Not So Standard Deviations. We talk about the evolution of the data science community, how the conversations have changed, and why teaching remains central to Roger’s mission.

EPISODE 5
Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel: Reproducible research and student-centered learning
Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel is a Professor of the Practice and the Director of Undergraduate Studies at the Department of Statistical Science and an affiliated faculty in the Computational Media, Arts, and Cultures program at Duke University. She joins The Test Set to talk about publishing code, building narrative, and wrestling with ambiguity.