Tidyverse, ggplot2, and the secret to a tech company’s longevity: Hadley Wickham talks to Jon Krohn about Posit’s rebrand, Tidyverse and why it needs to be in every data scientist’s toolkit, and why getting your hands dirty with open-source projects can be so lucrative for your career.
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In this episode you will learn:
• All about the Tidyverse [04:46]
• Hadley’s favorite R libraries [17:10]
• The goal of Posit [30:29]
• On bringing multiple programming languages together [36:02]
• The principles for a long-lasting tech company [52:10]
• How Hadley developed ggplot2 [55:24]
• How to contribute to the open-source community [1:05:43]
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