Michael, Hadley, and Wes welcome Roger Peng, professor of statistics and data science at UT Austin and co-host of Not So Standard Deviations. Together they trace Roger’s journey from early R adopter to pioneering online educator and prolific podcaster. The conversation ranges from the accidental rise of “data science” as a field, to the tension between research papers and software maintenance, to what makes for meaningful, lasting creative work.What’s Inside:Roger’s first analysis project and what it taught him about authorship and dataRoger’s advice for students testing the waters in data scienceWhy software has become the unifying language of modern statisticsThe origins of “data science” as a field and a labelReflections on Coursera, MOOCs, and opening education to the worldWhat keeps a podcast (and a career) going strong after a decade-plus

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