I’m going to braindump some folks I enjoy following online.
Toolmakers
I learned about these people through some of the amazing tools they’ve built.
- Ben Fry: Processing
- Fernando Pérez: IPython
- Gaël Varoquaux: scikit-learn
- Hadley Wickham: Tidyverse
- John MacFarlane: Pandoc
- Kieran Healy: Plain Text Social Science
- Meredith Whittaker: Signal
- Mike Bostock: D3.js
- Steph Ango: Obsidian
- Wes McKinney: pandas
- Yihui Xie: knitr