The Test Set by Posit
A Posit podcast for data science junkies, anomaly hunters, and those who play outside the confidence interval. Hosted by Michael Chow, with co-hosts Wes McKinney & Hadley Wickham.
Podcasting since 2025 • 11 episodes
The Test Set by Posit
Latest Episodes
Kelly Bodwin — Quarto hacks, AI in the classroom, and why R should stay weird
In this episode, we’re joined by Kelly Bodwin — candy corn defender, board game enthusiast, and Associate Professor of Statistics and Data Science at Cal Poly. We discuss her path from English and French to statistics, how she builds teaching t...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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51:09
James Blair: Part 2 — Solutions engineering, critical thinking, and staying human
This episode is Part 2 of our conversation with James Blair. He explains how he found his “accidental perfect fit” as a solutions engineer and how that role became a pipeline into product management. Get a peek into the AI-powered tooling he’s ...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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42:09
James Blair: Part 1 — Portfolios, practice, and staying curious
In Part 1 of our conversation with James Blair, we trace his delightfully non-linear path from childhood robotics dreams to journalism to R, with a few stops in between. We hear about the Shiny app that changed his career, plus a candid roundta...
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Episode 9
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29:31
Julia Silge: Part 2 — Glue work, licensing, and open source in the age of LLMs
In part two of our conversation with Julia Silge, we discuss how work actually ships: the boundaries, the glue, and the tools that turn noise into signal. From there, we go macro and wonder what the LLM era means for humanity’s contributions, p...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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28:17
Julia Silge: Part 1 — Positron, pineapple pizza, and the art of iteration
In part one of our conversation with Julia Silge, astronomer-turned–data-science leader, we explore why data science needs a different kind of IDE. Julia takes us inside Positron, Posit’s next-generation, data-scientist-first environment, and u...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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38:45