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R for the Rest of Us Podcast Episode #26: Nick Tierney
10 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I chat with Nick Tierney, a statistician, data scientist, and creator of the {naniar} R package for exploring missing data. Nick refl...
R for the Rest of Us Podcast Episode #27: Garrick Aden-Buie
12 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I sit down with Garrick Aden-Buie, a senior software engineer at Posit (formerly RStudio), to explore his latest project: brand.yml. T...
R for the Rest of Us Podcast Episode #25: Robert Smith
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I sit down with Robert Smith, co-founder of Dark Peak Analytics, to discuss his journey from academia to advising the UK government d...
R for the Rest of Us Podcast Episode #24: Simon Couch
28 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I chat with Simon Couch, a software engineer at Posit, about his work on AI-powered R packages. Simon maintains open-source statist...
R for the Rest of Us Podcast Episode #23: Terence Teo
06 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I chat with Terence Teo, Professor at Seton Hall University and expert in creating stunning 3D maps using the {rayshader} package in ...
R for the Rest of Us Podcast Episode #22: Alex Gold
12 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I chat with Alex Gold, who leads solution engineering and support teams at Posit. We talk about his new book ‘DevOps for Data Scien...
R for the Rest of Us Podcast Episode #21: Cédric Viddone
29 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I talk with Cédric Viddone, an Information Management Officer at UNHCR with over 15 years of experience in humanitarian data visuali...
R for the Rest of Us Podcast Episode #20: Christine Parker
14 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I talk with Christine Parker, the Senior GIS Analyst on the Community Broadband Networks team at the Institute for Local Self Relianc...
R for the Rest of Us Podcast Episode #19: Crystal Lewis
10 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I chat with Crystal Lewis about data management and her recently published book titled ‘Data Management in Large-Scale Education Re...
R for the Rest of Us Podcast Episode #18: Miles McBain
29 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I speak with Miles McBain, a data scientist and R package developer from Brisbane, Australia, about patterns and anti-patterns in dat...
R for the Rest of Us Podcast Episode #17: Meghan Harris
25 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I speak with Meghan Harris, a data scientist at the Prostate Cancer Trials Consortium at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center...
R for the Rest of Us Podcast Episode #16: Cara Thompson
13 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I speak with Cara Thompson about color, delving into several aspects of its use in data visualization. Cara is a UK-based data visual...
R for the Rest of Us Podcast Episode #15: Nicola Rennie
15 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I talk with Nicola Rennie about making data viz for mobile devices. Nicola is a lecturer in health data science based within the Cent...
R for the Rest of Us Podcast Episode #14: Will Landau
17 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I’m joined by Will Landau, a statistician and software developer currently working with Eli Lilly and Company. Will specializes in ...
R for the Rest of Us Podcast Episode #13: Using R in the Humanitarian Data Space (Ahmadou Dicko)
20 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I talk with Ahmadou Dicko, a statistician based in Senegal working with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Ah...
R for the Rest of Us Podcast Episode #12: R and Covid-19 (Chris Knox)
06 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I speak with Chris Knox, who is currently the Head of Data Journalism at the New Zealand Herald. Prior to that, he worked at the New ...
R for the Rest of Us Podcast Episode #11: Creating a package (Travis Gerke and Garrick Aden-Buie)
23 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Travis Gerke and Garrick Aden-Buie join me to demystify the process behind developing custom packages in R. Travis is the Director of...
R for the Rest of Us Podcast Episode #10: tidycensus (Kyle Walker)
09 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I speak with Kyle Walker, Associate Professor of Geography and Director of the Center for Urban Studies at Texas Christian University...
R for the Rest of Us Podcast Episode #9: Pull in survey results (Meghan Harris)
09 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I speak with Meghan Harris, a data integration specialist at the Primary Care Research Institute, University of Buffalo. There, she b...
R for the Rest of Us Podcast Episode #8: Websites (Matt Herman)
25 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I chat with Matt Herman about building websites in R. Matt shares lessons from his experience building a self-updating Covid-19 track...
R for the Rest of Us Podcast Episode #7: Presentations (Silvia Canelón)
18 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I talk with Silvia Canelón, a postdoctoral research scientist in the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics at t...
R for the Rest of Us Podcast Episode #6: Parameterized Reporting at the Urban Institute
05 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I talk with Aaron R. Williams, Livia Mucciolo and Safia Sayed about their experience using parameterized reporting to make State Fisc...
R for the Rest of Us Podcast Episode #5: Alison Hill
20 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I talk R Markdown with Alison Hill, the Director of Knowledge at Voltron Data. Before taking on this position, she held data science ...
R for the Rest of Us Podcast Episode #4: Abdoul Madjid
05 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I speak with Abdoul Madjid about his journey to R. To learn more about Abdoul, you can find him on Twitter and on Mastodon. His data v...
R for the Rest of Us Podcast Episode #3: Tom Mock on Learning R and Making Tables
13 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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...
R for the Rest of Us Podcast Episode #2: Nassos Stylianou and Clara Guibourg Discuss Making a Custom ggplot Theme for the BBC
08 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In 2017, BBC data journalist Nassos Stylianou was working with a backend developer on a particularly large data set. Nassos was primarily an Excel use...
R for the Rest of Us Podcast Episode #1: Cédric Scherer and Georgios Karamanis
22 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 v...