A Posit video
podcast series for
data science

For data science junkies, anomaly hunters, and those who play outside the confidence interval.

OUR HOSTS

Michael Chow

Principal Software Engineer, Posit

Michael Chow

Hadley Wickham

Chief Scientist, Posit

Hadley Wickham

Wes McKinney

Principal Architect, Posit

Wes McKinney

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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.

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UPCOMING EPISODES

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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.

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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.

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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.