An Afternoon with Hadley Wickham and Friends

This is a free community event hosted by Data Day Texas (http://datadaytexas.com/), the Austin R User Group (https://www.meetup.com/Austin-R-User-Group/), and Austin Data Geeks (http://austindatageeks.org/). Following the event, there will be a happy hour / meet and greet sponsored by the fine folks at RStudio (https://www.rstudio.com/).

The Agenda

Hadley Wickham - Why I use R for data science and what's trending.

Jenny Bryan - Using RMarkdown with Github for reproducible analyses

Garrett Groleumund - R in a Big Data world

Speaker Bios

Hadley Wickham (@hadleywickham (http://twitter.com/hadleywickham)) is Chief Scientist at RStudio (http://rstudio.com/) and an Adjunct Professor at Rice University. He is an active member of the R community, has written and contributed to over 40 R packages, and won the John Chambers Award for Statistical Computing for his work developing tools for data reshaping and visualisation. His research focusses on how to make data analysis better, faster and easier, with a particular emphasis on the use of visualisation to better understand data and models.

Jennifer Bryan (@JennyBryan (https://twitter.com/JennyBryan)) is an Associate Professor in the Statistics Department and the Michael Smith Laboratories at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. She's a biostatistician specialized in genomics and takes a special interest and delight in data analysis and statistical computing.

Garrett Grolemund (@StatGarrett (https://twitter.com/statgarrett)) is a Data Scientist and Master Instructor at RStudio. He maintains theshiny.rstudio.com (http://theshiny.rstudio.com/) development center for the popular R package Shiny, co-wrote the Lubridate package for R, and is the author of both Hands On Programming with R and the upcoming book, Data Science with R, from O’Reilly Media. He holds a PhD in Statistics and specializes in Data Visualization.