Episode 16: Interview With Dean Attali
Posted on Saturday, Jan 30, 2016 | Category: Podcast
Direct from the first-ever Shiny Developer conference, here is episode 16 of the R-Podcast! In this episode I sit down with Dean Attali for an engaging conversation about his journey to using R, his motivation for creating the innovative shinyjs package, and his perspective on teaching others about R through his support of the innovative and highly-praised Stats 545 course at UBC. In addition you’ll hear about how his previous work prepared him well for using R, his collaboration with the RStudio team, and much more. I hope you enjoy this episode and thanks for listening!
Show Notes
Dean Attali (@daattali)
- Dean’s site
- shinyjs on GitHub
- Stats 545 course | University of British Columbia led by Jenny Bryan
- Code Academy course on learning HTML and CSS
- Persistent data storage in Shiny Apps article authored by Dean
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Music Credits
- Opening and closing themes: Training Montage by WillRock from the Return All Robots Remix Album at ocremix.org
Guests
Dean Attali
Dean is a R/Shiny consultant leading his own consulting company of AttaliTech Ltd. Dean was previously a software engineer at Google and top San Fransisco startup Wish.com. He is the author of several R packages such as shinyjs, timevis, addinslist, and more.
Hosts
Eric Nantz
Eric Nantz is a principal research scientist at a large life sciences company, creating innovative analytical pipelines and capabilities supporting study designs and analyses. Outside of his day job, Eric is passionate about connecting with the R community as the creator/host of the R-Podcast, Shiny Developer Series, and a curator / podcast host for the R Weekly project. Plus, he likes to share his adventures with R and general computing on Twitch livestreams at twitch.tv/rpodcast.