Sustainers of the tidyverse — H2O World

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If a piece of open-source software is to survive its own success, it must have a healthy community of active contributors. The tidyverse, a collection of R packages for data science with a shared underlying design philosophy, has become popular in no small part because of its usability among those who do not consider themselves to be “programmers.” However, this active base of non-developer users has been a fruitful source of contributions as we’ve sought to highlight aspects of contributing to open source beyond committing lines of code. This talk covers the technical tools, virtual spaces, and social norms that have enabled and empowered community contributions.

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BibTeX citation:

@online{averick2019,
  author = {Averick, Mara},
  title = {Sustainers of the Tidyverse — {H2O} {World}},
  date = {2019-02-09},
  url = {https://dataand.me/talks/2019-02_sustainers-of-the-tidyverse-h2o-world},
  langid = {en}
}

For attribution, please cite this work as:

Averick, Mara. 2019. “Sustainers of the tidyverse — H2O World.” February 9, 2019. https://dataand.me/talks/2019-02_sustainers-of-the-tidyverse-h2o-world.