Episode 23: Interviews with Romain Francois and Thomas Lin Pedersen at rstudio::conf

The R-Podcast’s coverage of rstudio::conf 2018 begins! I have the pleasure of speaking with Romain Francois and Thomas Lin Pedersen. You’ll hear Romain’s thoughts on the growth of Rcpp and the project that helped him become closer to the R community. We also learn about Thomas' journey to enhancing ggplot2 and the new packages he’s developed covering network analyses and dynamic APIs from R. I hope you enjoy episode 23 of the R-Podcast!

Show Notes

Getting involved with the R Community

Emily Robinson’s posts: Building Your Data Science Network: Finding Community and Reaching Out
Time to shine: Blogging and social media for introverts (John Mackintosh)
Making Peace with Personal Branding (Rachel Thomas)
Advice to aspiring data scientists: Start a blog (David Robinson)

Conversations with Romain Francois and Thomas Lin Pedersen

Romain’s site: romain.rbind.io/
Rcpp: www.rcpp.org/
R Graph Gallery: www.r-graph-gallery.com/
Calling Go from R: romain.rbind.io/blog/2017/05/14/calling-go-from-r/
Thomas’s blog: www.data-imaginist.com
Becoming The Intern: www.data-imaginist.com/2016/becoming-the-intern/
ggraph - Grammar of Graph Graphics github.com/thomasp85/ggraph
tidygraph - A tidy API for graph manipulation github.com/thomasp85/tidygraph
Thomas' Patreon page: www.patreon.com/thomasp85

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Music Credits

Opening and closing themes: Training Montage by WillRock from the Return All Robots Remix Album at ocremix.org

Romain Francois

Romain Francois is a consulting datactive at ThinkR. He has been involved with the R community for several years. Romain is one of the original authors of the Rcpp package, as well as a key contribotor to the plyr and dplyr packages. In this spare time Romain likes to perform stand-up comedy.

Thomas Lin Pedersen

Thomas Lin Pedersen is a data scientist working for the Danish tax authority in Denmark. He has made numerous contributions to packages in the R community. Thomas has created a suite of packages dedicated to network visualizations/manipulation including ggraph, tidygraph. He also works on packages such as fiery that enable R to become a lightweight web server.

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.

Episode 23: Interviews With Romain Francois and Thomas Lin Pedersen at Rstudio::conf