Reflections from the Posit Conference – R or Python?

At last year’s RStudio conference, RStudio made the big announcement that they would be renaming the organization Posit. This change reflects the organization’s interest in branching out from “just R” to include additional projects: for example, Python and Quarto projects.

Data Science Institute to establish campus Open Source Program Office

The UW–Madison Data Science Institute will establish an Open Source Program Office (OSPO) on campus, in partnership with Madison College, the Data Science Hub, the UW–Madison Libraries and UW–Madison Extension. This new office will accelerate the translation of academic research to society by providing opportunities to learn about, develop and share open-source software, hardware, data, models and more.