A Posit video
podcast series for
data science
For data science junkies, anomaly hunters, and those who play outside the confidence interval.
OUR HOSTS
Principal Software Engineer, Posit
Michael Chow
Chief Scientist, Posit
Hadley Wickham
Principal Architect, Posit
Wes McKinney
Episode 6
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
Roger Peng: Sustaining data science — in classrooms, code, and conversations
Michael Chow: From psychology and Python to constrained creativity
For this one, we turn the mic around. Wes McKinney takes over the interviewer's chair to chat with his co-host, Michael Chow. Michael's a principal software engineer at Posit, but he started out studying how people think — literally, with a PhD in cognitive psychology. Somewhere along the way, he got hooked on data science, helped build adaptive learning tools at DataCamp, and now spends his days thinking about how to make Python easier to use and more fun.
The two dig into what drives Michael's curiosity, how a “weird obsession with tables” turned into a beloved open source project, and the future of data science/scientists.