Talks

htmlwidgets Are a Secret Sauce in R

htmlwidgets quietly power some of the most compelling Shiny apps out there, but writing them from scratch can be fiddly and time-consuming. In this talk, we kick things off…

Nic Crane & Charlotte Hadley

Hacking Productivity with LLMs

Over the past 18 months, I’ve used large language models (LLMs) in a series of experiments to improve my productivity as a developer on open source projects in R. I wanted…

Experimenting with LLM Applications in R

Large language models (LLMs) are surprisingly easy to use and at their core, they’re just an API call away. But how do you go from calling a model to actually building…

Mixing R, Python, and Quarto: Crafting the Perfect Open Source Cocktail

A talk on Arrow that Alenka Frim and I wrote and presented at posit::conf 2024.

Efficiently Engineering Bigger Data with Arrow

Data analysis pipelines with larger-than-memory data are becoming more and more commonplace. There are often blurred lines between data science and data engineering, and…

What they forgot to teach you about becoming an open source contributor

Getting involved in open source is an amazing learning experience and helps you grow your skills as a developer, but to a new contributor there are so many unknown factors…

The future’s Shiny: Pioneering genomic medicine in R

Shiny's expanding capabilities are rapidly transforming how it is used in an enterprise. This talk details the creation of a large-scale application, supporting hundreds of…

Ten Steps To Becoming A Tidyverse Contributor

A talk about getting involved in open source!