Hadley Wickham
Hadley is Chief Scientist at RStudio, 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.
Sessions
RStudio recently changed its name to Posit to reflect the fact that we're already a company that does more than just R. Come along to this talk to hear a few of the reasons that we love R, and to learn about some of the open source tools we're working on for python.