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 • 14 episodes
The Test Set by Posit
Latest Episodes
Emily Riederer: Column selectors, data quality, and learning in public
Emily Riederer writes Python with an R accent, and we’re all comfortable with it. In this episode, Emily reflects on her journey through R, Python, and SQL — from lessons learned in averaging default values (oops, we're not all rich!) to discov...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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58:19
Rebecca Barter: Persistent learning, tool building, and ‘Will code even exist?’
Rebecca Barter, senior data scientist at Arine and adjunct assistant professor at the University of Utah, refuses to work on things she doesn’t care about. Lucky for us, she cares about a lot, most of all impact. In this episode, Rebecca joins ...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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56:47
Marco Gorelli: Narwhals, ecosystem glue, and the value of boring work
You’ve probably used Narwhals without realizing it. It’s the compatibility layer helping apps and libraries like Plotly play nice with Pandas, Polars, Arrow, and more — while keeping computation native instead of converting everything to Pandas...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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51:41
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