Hadley Wickham writes: The best way to impact the world as a data scientist or statistician is to be useful. This column gives my advice on being useful: • Write code • Work in the open • Teach • Tell the world (There are lots of other ways to be…

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Contributing Editor Hadley Wickham is Chief Scientist at RStudio and Adjunct Professor of Statistics at Rice University. He is interested in building better tools for data science. His work includes R packages for data analysis (ggplot2, plyr, reshape2); packages that make R less frustrating (lubridate for dates, stringr for strings,…

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