Josiah Parry, R Developer & Spatial Statistician, on pragmatic AI and the "ggplot gateway drug"

About this episode

Josiah Parry discusses his journey in R programming and spatial statistics, highlighting the role of AI in his work.

In this episode we had the opportunity of talking to Josiah Parry, currently working at ESRI in the spatial analytics and data science team (spatial statistics). Josiah started with sociology, then went to urban informatics, worked with Posit (before RStudio) with the government sector and then joined ESRI where he plays an important role in bridging the company with the R ecosystem.

People in this episode

Guest: Josiah Parry

Topics covered

• AI
• spatial statistics
• R programming
• data science

Keywords

• ggplot
• urban informatics
• ESRI
• Posit

Mentioned in this episode

Products: R, ggplot, ESRI

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