The talk starts at 12:15.

Please note that due to COVID-19, only the first 10 UiO employees will be able to see this talk in person. The rest of the participants can watch the streamed talk on Zoom with a link (below).

Speaker: Thomas Lin Pedersen

Location: UiO, 8th floor math department

Title: Art-Driven Development 

Abstract: Spending time on open source development can be draining and it is easy to dig one-self into a hole of maintaining and improving a single popular package or library. Sometimes that is ok, especially if you really care deeply about the state and success of this single package, but it is difficult to grow as a programmer simply maintaining pre-existing work. To improve, you have to continually build new stuff up from the ground, expanding on the experience that you gained from the last project. In this talk I will go through how I use my interest in generative art to continue finding and executing new projects, both niche and of broader interest. I’ll give examples of recent art-driven projects and talk about the unique challenges they produced to illustrate how diverse projects can broaden your programming experience.

ZOOM:

Link: https://uio.zoom.us/j/69598258961

Meeting ID: 695 9825 8961

Thomas Lin Pedersen works in visualization and data science at Rstudio. He has written the R packages gganimate, ggraph, and lime (see: https://github.com/thomasp85) and is the main maintainer of ggplot.

(Note that Thomas will not be presenting in person but through Zoom).