From First-Time Attendee to Speaker: My posit::conf Journey

A Cold Chicago Winter, a Warm San Diego Welcome My first rstudio::conf was 2018 in San Diego, late January. Coming from Chicago, that felt like a small miracle. I had about six or seven months of R and the {tidyverse} behind me, was still studying social psychology in grad school, and had only ever done academic conferences. Walking into this one felt different; bigger stage, crisper production,…