The People of Posit: Bringing Personality to R Packages
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Argues that personal connections make R less intimidating and demonstrates how outreach translates to concrete outcomes: video interviews with local R/Bioconductor contributors and podcast episodes featuring guests like Jane Goodall, Francis Collins, Tony Fauci and Hadley Wickham, links to recordings and resources, examples of collaborators who contribute to packages and then launch their own projects, usage of YouTube, Data Science Hangouts, R-Ladies and Tidy Tuesday to build skills and a package under active development.
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