Data Scientist and Software Engineer at Posit, PBC
Michael Chow
Michael is a data science tool builder at Posit, where he works on open source tools for data analysis. He received a Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from Princeton University, and is interested in what drives expert data science performance. When not wrangling data, you can find him in Philly writing tiny poems, baking bread, and embroidering.
Chief Scientist, Posit
Hadley Wickham
Hadley is Chief Scientist at Posit PBC, winner of the 2019 COPSS award, and a member of the R Foundation. He builds tools (both computational and cognitive) to make data science easier, faster, and more fun. His work includes packages for data science (like the tidyverse, which includes ggplot2, dplyr, and tidyr)and principled software development (e.g. roxygen2, testthat, and pkgdown). He is also a writer, educator, and speaker promoting the use of R for data science.
Principal Architect, Posit
Wes McKinney
Wes McKinney is Principal Architect at Posit and an open source software developer focusing on analytical computing. He created the Python pandas project and is a co-creator of Apache Arrow, his current focus. He authored two editions of the reference book, Python for Data Analysis.