Hadley WickhamInterview
Chief scientist (RStudio)
Adapted from Hadley Wickham's interview on Uses This, published 22 October 2013. The kit is drawn from their answers and each reason is an excerpt, lightly edited. Shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the full interview ↗
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15" MacBook Pro Retina, 2.6 GHz, 16 gig RAM, 500 gig SSD (only half full).
Communication
Stayfocusd keeps me (mostly) focussed during the work day, and keeps me from distractions like Hacker News and The Old Reader.
I use Gmail, but every UI change in the last year has made me like it less.
I tweet from Echofon, but pretty much only read #rstats related tweets.
Productivity
Browser
Notes
Security
I store passwords and other important (encrypted) info in LittleSecrets.
Coding & Development
I'm Chief Scientist at RStudio - my job is to make good data analysis easier, faster, and more enjoyable and R more awesome through a combination of research, programming and teaching.
I use git and github all the time.
Storage
I keep big datasets and shared files in Dropbox - we have a teams account, so I have 1 TB (!) of storage there.
Other
My current favourite iPhone game is Wordament.