posit::conf(2023) Watch Party

With the kind support of Discovery and Posit, we are excited to host an in-person watch party for posit::conf(2023)! This is an excellent opportunity to share the excitement and enjoy the conference together.

Agenda

• The meeting starts at 17h00
• 17h00 - 17h30 Welcome and News - Handre Williams & Luis de Sousa
• 17h30 - 18h30 Live Keynote - Abstractions All the Way Down ... JD Long, VP Risk Management, RenaissanceRe
• Meeting finishes at 19h00

Details

• When: 20 September 2023 @ 17h00 to 19h00 (GMT+2)
• Where: 1 Discovery Place, Sandton, South Africa
• Location: https://maps.app.goo.gl/HLMk1c39BwusWRjV7

Keen to speak at a user group event? Submit your session abstracts at https://sessionize.com/johannesburg-r-user-group/

Speaker Biography
JD Long, VP Risk Management, RenaissanceRe

Over 20 years ago Joel Spolsky famously wrote, "All non-trivial abstractions, to some degree, are leaky." Unsurprisingly this has not changed. However, we have introduced more and more layers of abstraction into our workflows: Virtual Machines, AWS services, WASM, Docker, R, Python, data frames, and on and on. But then on top of the computational abstractions we have people abstractions: managers, colleagues, executives, stakeholders, etc.
JD's presentation will be a wild romp through the mental models of abstractions and discuss how we, as technical analytical types, can gain skill in traversing abstractions and dealing with leaks.