data.table

Earlier this month I gave a short talk about dplyr at the Los Angeles R meetup. It was one of the 5 talks about the useR! 2014 conference, and you can see the summaries and slides from the other 4 talks here.

Matt Dowle holds a wealth of knowledge and is worth listening to for a variety of reasons. He has worked for some of the world’s largest financial organizations, holding positions at the focal point between money and data. He has been programming in R for well over a decade. He has lived the open source mantra, by not only consuming open source software but also releasing his own community contributions to CRAN. On top of those accomplishments, he’s also quite funny and spins a heck of a good yarn.