Carson is a trusted RStudio trainer with over 5 years experience teaching university courses and running interactive workshops . Sign up for his next PLOTCON workshop below, request an on-site training , and read about his teaching philosophy.
Carson enjoys developing software and creating products that make data analysis more accessible and less boring. He is most well-known as the maintainer of plotly – the most widely used R package for creating interactive web graphics. Shortly after receiving a PhD in statistics, his contributions to plotly were recognized by the ASA with the Chambers Award. In addition to a formal background in math and statistics, Carson has over 7 years experience using and developing data science software – allowing him to attack challenging problems with domain expertise from many different areas. Whether it's a novel visualization for better model interpretation (LDAvis), or a customized (shiny) web-application for exploring multiple datasets (e.g., zikar, pedestrians, eechidna, bcviz); Carson pushes the frontier of R and JavaScript to help (himself and others) derive insight from data in a reusable, portable, reproducible, and accessible way.