Podcast
Conversations with users around the world about interesting things they are doing with R.
R for the Rest of Us Podcast Episode 3: Tom Mock
December 13, 2022
In this episode, I speak with Tom Mock. Tom works at Posit (formerly RStudio) where he helped customers use that company's suite of products. Tom also loves building tables. I spoke with Tom about how he learned R, how he uses it today, and why he is so into making tables in R. In the video, Tom gives a code walkthrough of how to make high-quality tables in R with the {gt} package.Resources Discussed The blog post on making tables that we reference in our conversation is here:...
R for the Rest of Us Podcast Episode 2: Nassos Stylianou and Clara Guibourg
November 8, 2022
In 2017, BBC data journalist Nassos Stylianou was working with a backend developer on a particularly large data set. Nassos was primarily an Excel user at the time, but this data was too large for Excel. Seeing the developer work through the data with ease, a light bulb went off for Stylianou: if he and his data journalism team learned to use R, they could do this type of analysis on their own. This realization began a journey into R. This journey, which started with needing to analyze data...
R for the Rest of Us Podcast Episode 1: Cédric Scherer and Georgios Karamanis
August 22, 2022
In this first episode of the R for the Rest of Us podcast, I speak with designers Cédric Scherer and Georgios Karamanis about how they learned data viz, why they use R for their work, and how they get inspired.Resources Discussed The chapter in my book R Without Statistics that this discussion led to is available as a draft. To learn more about Cédric, find him on Twitter.Georgios is on Twitter as well.Learn More If you want to receive emails when we publish new podcast episodes, sign up for...