There's a new podcast in town, and it's focused on R. Four members of the R community (Oliver Keyes, Wikimedia Foundation; Jasmine Dumas. DePaul University; Ted Hart, Silcon Valley "fruit vendor"; and Mikhail Popov, Wikimedia Foundation) have banded together to produce R Talk, a podcast about "the R Programming language, featuring news, interviews and dives into how R is used in different academic and indutry fields". In the inaugural episode, Jasmine shared her experiences developing R in the Google Summer of Code, and Oliver shared his impressions (and stories from) the recent useR conference in Denmark. Ted also responded to a user question on the history of CRAN and whether anything is likely to replace it (and you can submit your own question to be answered in a future episode by tweeting to @RTalkPodcast).
I was honoured to also be an invited guest on the first show. In my segment (which begins at around the 37-minute mark), where I chatted about Revolution Analytics and the acquisition by Microsoft, and about the goals of the newly-formed R Consortium (of which Microsoft is a board member). Also on the topic of the R Consortium, Bob Muenchen suggests several goals for the R Consortium to pursue, which the board will definitely discuss. Got any other suggestions for the R Consortium? Let me know your thoughts in the comments.
Hi David, thank you for posting about the podcast! We really appreciate it and we were thrilled to have you join us for the first episode. Quick correction: Oliver's last name is Keyes, not Ketes. Thanks! :D -- Mikhail
Posted by: Bearloga | August 07, 2015 at 12:01
Thanks Mikhail and apologies to Oliver for the typo, now fixed above.
Posted by: David Smith | August 07, 2015 at 12:14
David, this is neat! I'm going to try to listen to it today.
Posted by: Ari Lamstein | August 16, 2015 at 08:07