Hands-On Programming with R

About the Author

Garrett Grolemund is a statistician, teacher, and R developer who works for RStudio. He sees data science as a largely untapped fountain of value for both industry and academia. Garrett received his PhD at Rice University in Hadley Wickham’s lab, where his research traced the origins of data science as a cognitive process and identified how attentional and epistemological concerns guide every data analysis.

Garrett is passionate about helping people avoid the frustration and unnecessary learning he went through while mastering data science. Even before he finished his dissertation, he started leading corporate trainings in R and data analysis for Revolution Analytics. He’s taught at Google, eBay, Roche, and many other companies, and is developing a training curriculum for RStudio that will make useful know-how even more accessible.

Outside of teaching, Garrett spends time doing clinical trials research, legal research, and financial analysis. He also develops R software, has coauthored the lubridate R package—which provides methods to parse, manipulate, and do arithmetic with date-times—and wrote the ggsubplot package, which extends the ggplot2 package.