Episode 22: Diving in to Drake with Will Landau

In this episode of the R-Podcast I have a conversation with my colleague Will Landau about his new R package drake that provides a powerful build system for analysis pipelines. In addition we have a fun R community roundup, listener feedback, and a couple of package picks to give you a gentle nod and a fun way to explore interpolation. If you have ideas for topics, questions, or other types of feedback, get in touch with me by heading over to the R-Podcast site at r-podcast.org, sending a note to thercast[at]gmail.com, or contacting me at @thercast on Twitter. As always thanks for tuning in and I hope you enjoy episode 22 of the R-Podcast!

Show Notes

drake package on CRAN: https://cran.rstudio.com/web/packages/drake/. Check out the quickstart and detailed introduction vignettes.
Will’s site: will-landau.com
Will’s GitHub page: https://github.com/wlandau

R Community Roundup

SatRDay from Cape Town videos now available: http://capetown2017.satrdays.org/#programme
- Data Rectangling by Jenny Bryan
- Text Mining, the tidy way by Julia Silge
- Who goes there? Profiling street by street audience with Telco data by Kael Huerta (slides).
Taskviewr shiny app by by Mikhail Popov (@bearloga): https://bearloga.shinyapps.io/taskviewr/
- My PR to the app: https://github.com/bearloga/taskviewr/pull/2
Faces of #rstats by Maelle Salmon (@ma_salmon): http://www.masalmon.eu/2017/03/19/facesofr/
- Twitter followers collage by Andrew Clark (@pssguy): https://www.mytinyshinys.com/post/twitterFollowersCollage/
What’s the “apprentice to guru” path for data management? (rstats subreddit): reddit.com/r/rstats/comments/60rfqa/whats_the_apprentice_to_guru_path_for_data/

Listener Feedback

Highlight of the weekend: Discovery of the R podcast by @theRcast #rstats #soexcited pic.twitter.com/YhOCkRM5DA
— Lars Schoebitz (@Larnsce) March 5, 2017

Jared Knowles (@jknowles): Thanks!
Jared’s Data Science Livestream: jknowles.github.io/DataScienceLivestream/

Package Picks

remindR: In code text reminders to aid code development by Bert Gunter
fluidSpine: Htmlwidget that allows users to interact with locations of points on a plot by Jonathan Sidi (@yoniceedee)

Feedback

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Music Credits

Opening and closing themes: Training Montage by WillRock from the Return All Robots Remix Album at ocremix.org

Will Landau

Will Landau is a research scientist in the life sciences industry. Will likes to solve scientific problems from a statistician’s perspective, and likes to build tools for data analysis. He develops and maintains some R packages on CRAN, including drake and downsize. Will is also a minimalist, a sailor (wind-powered, not military), a climber, a CrossFitter, and a martial artist.

Eric Nantz

Eric Nantz is a principal research scientist at a large life sciences company, creating innovative analytical pipelines and capabilities supporting study designs and analyses. Outside of his day job, Eric is passionate about connecting with the R community as the creator/host of the R-Podcast, Shiny Developer Series, and a curator / podcast host for the R Weekly project. Plus, he likes to share his adventures with R and general computing on Twitch livestreams at twitch.tv/rpodcast.

Episode 22: Diving in to Drake With Will Landau