Garrett Grolemund
Director Of Learning, Customer And Partner Education
Greater Chattanooga United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGarrett Grolemund is a leader in data science education and developer relations with 17 years of experience shaping how people learn and use R, currently directing Learning, Customer and Partner Education at Posit. He co-authored R for Data Science and R Markdown: The Definitive Guide, authored Hands-On Programming with R, and created the widely used lubridate package—work that underscores both his technical craftsmanship and pedagogy. An early RStudio hire, Garrett helped evolve teaching and customer-facing functions into today’s formal teams while producing popular video courses, tutorials, Shiny examples, and RStudio cheat sheets. He combines a PhD in Statistics from Rice with a background in psychology and visual art, bringing an unusual blend of rigorous analytics, clear communication, and design sensibility to developer education.
17 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Statistics, PhD, Statistics at Rice UniversityMaster of Arts (M.A.), Statistics, Master of Arts (M.A.), Statistics at Harvard University
Github Skills (28)
data-visualizations10
textbook10
storybook10
data-science10
r10
shiny10
data-visualisation10
user-interface10
tidyverse10
docbook10
rmarkdown10
data-visualization10
bookdown10
documentation10
web-application9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
rstudio-education/hopr
Oct 2018 - Mar 2021
This is the development site for Hands-On Programming with R, a book that teaches how to program in R, with hands-on examples. Read the book at https://rstudio-education.github.io/hopr.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:87 commits, 9 PRs, 59 pushes in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Garrett's contributions primarily focused on updating the book "Hands-On Programming with R", as demonstrated by the commit messages that included changes to the book's content and integration of build and deployment scripts. The user was responsible for updating the content and managing the deployment process, particularly related to building and deploying the book to the docs directory. These changes included updates to the HTML files and the preface as well as integrating CI/CD and configuring Travis CI to push the book to the docs directory.
hands-onhandsrstudiorstatsgithub-education
rstudio/webinars
Sep 2014 - Sep 2019
Code and slides for RStudio webinars
Role in this project:Data Scientist
Data ScientistContributions:36 commits, 12 PRs, 26 pushes in 5 years
Contributions summary:Garrett primarily contributed to webinar materials within the RStudio ecosystem. They provided code examples and content for various topics, including Shiny applications for data visualization and interactive elements, R Markdown for reproducible reporting and dynamic documents, and utilizing the tidyverse for data manipulation and analysis. The contributions suggest a focus on teaching and demonstrating data science techniques and tools.
rstudiowebinars
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