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In this episode, I'm joined by JJ Allaire, founder and executive chairman at Posit, and Carlos Scheidegger, a software engineer at Posit, to explore Quarto, an open-source tool revolutionizing technical publishing. We discuss how Quarto empowers users to seamlessly transform Jupyter notebooks into polished reports, dashboards, e-books, websites, and more. JJ shares his journey from creating RStudio to developing Quarto as a versatile, multi-language tool, while Carlos delves into its roots in reproducibility and the challenges of academic publishing. Don't miss this deep dive into a tool that's shaping the future of data-driven storytelling!

This episode dives into some of the most important data science libraries from the Python space with one of its pioneers: Wes McKinney. He's the creator or co-creator of pandas, Apache Arrow, and Ibis projects and an entrepreneur in this space.

When you think about the power of Python, the clean language or powerful standard library may come to mind. You might certainly point to the external packages too. But what about the relative ease of picking up new libraries or even parts of the standard library? Documentation plays an important role there. And the tools in the Python space for building solid documentation and even publishing articles and books involving live code are huge assets.

You've often heard me talk about Python as a superpower. It can amplify whatever you're interested in or what you have specialized in for your career.

This episode is an amazing example of this. You'll meet Cornelis van Lit. He is a scholar of medieval Islamic philosophy and woks at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. What he is doing with Python is pretty amazing.

On this episode, we dive into Python for lawyers and a special tool for conducting legal interviews. Imagine you have to collect details for 20,000 participants in a class-action lawsuit. docassemble, a sweet Python web app, can do it for you with easy.

One of the hottest areas of growth for Python is in the scientific and data science communities. But if that work is done in an academic or research setting, it can be very hard to get proper credit for it. You have to write full on peer reviewed articles.

Are you a fan of developer and technical books? Ever wonder what went into the writing of your favorite Python book? This week we peek inside the world of book authorship with a panel of renowned developer-focused authors.

You'll meet Katharine Jarmul, Bruce Eckel, Luciano Ramalho, Dan Bader, and Brian Okken.

You often hear that we need to teach computer science as a foundational skill. Why? Well I'm not sure many of the leaders pushing this forward have great answers other than jobs!