The 10th annual @rstatsai on Friday in NY was a testament to how influential the local community has been to influencing global data science and A.I. with stars like @hadleywickham, @hmason and @wesmckinn on stage. Thanks to @jaredlander and Nicole for inviting me to host an eye-opening retrospective panel that covered not only ten years of the New York R Conference, but also 15 years of the hugely influential* New York Open Statistical Programming meetup. The informative, well-spoken panelists were (pictured, from Left to Right): • Emily Zabor: Board Member for NY R Ladies • @CMastication: Founder of the Chicago R User Group • @drewconway: Founder of the NY Open Statistical Programming meetup • Jared Lander: Founder of the NY R Conference *Across projects like pandas and the tidyverse, as well as books and tech companies. I anticipate that some of the most interesting, broadly-applicable discussion will be featured on upcoming episodes of The SuperDataScience Podcast — keep an eye out! #datascience #nyrconf #rlanguage #rlang #python #machinelearning #ai

Next Tuesday's episode is a special one — not only because it was filmed on stage in front of a live audience @rstatsai, but because @chrishwiggins provides an enthralling, hilarious and rich overview of the history of data science. In the episode, Chris magnificently details:  • The history of data and statistics from its infancy centuries ago to the present. • Why it’s a problem that most data scientists have limited exposure to the humanities. • How and when Bayesian statistics became controversial. • What we can do to address the key issues facing data science and ML today. • His computational biology research at @Columbia. • The tech stack used for data science at the globally revered @nytimes. The vast majority of this episode will be accessible to anyone. There are just a couple of questions near the end that cover content on tools and programming languages that are primarily intended for hands-on practitioners. Chris's #SuperDataScience episode will be #703 and be released on August 8th. #datascientist #journalism #systemsbiology #rstatsnyc

This was such an incredible experience and a terrific conversation thanks to the absurdly knowledgeable and well-spoken @chrishwiggins. Look out for it as Episode #703 of the @superdatasci podcast on August 8th :)