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. Learn more on his website, http://hadley.nz.
Session
The tidyverse is a collection of R packages designed to facilitate data science. My team and I have been working on it for nearly 20 years, and in this talk, I’ll share some of what we’ve learned about software development and open source community building in that time.
It’s very clear that AI is having a profound impact on how we develop software and do data science, so I’ll also offer a look into the (near) future, discussing how we’re updating our thinking about how people will do data science, and speculating on what work is likely to have the biggest impact.