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I'm Simon (he/him), an R developer and data scientist. I build tools for data scientists at Posit PBC (formerly RStudio).🐛

Most of the time, I'm focused on helping R users get the most out of LLMs:

tidyverse/vitals: LLM evaluation
posit-dev/mcptools: Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers and clients in R
posit-dev/btw: easily provide context on R stuff to LLMs
simonpcouch/gander: high-performance, low-friction chat for data science
simonpcouch/chores: an extensible collection of LLM assistants
simonpcouch/predictive: an agentic frontend for predictive modeling with tidymodels
simonpcouch/kapa: RAG-based search via the kapa.ai API

Some LLM-related experiments that didn't end up going far:

I previously spent most of time on R packages for statistical modeling, and still maintain a good few of those packages:

tidymodels/broom: convert statistical analysis objects to tidy tibbles
tidymodels/infer: a grammar for tidy statistical inference
tidymodels/stacks: tidymodels-friendly model stacking and ensembling
tidymodels/bonsai: model wrappers for tree-based models
tidymodels/workflows: combine preprocessing, modeling, and postprocessing objects
tidymodels/tailor: postprocessing with tidymodels
tidymodels/workflowsets: creating collections of modeling workflows
rstudio/bundle: a consistent interface for model serialization

Related to the above packages, I also have some pieces of a book called Efficient Machine Learning with R put together.

Another part of my gig is maintaining database interfaces for R:

I also maintain some personal R packages that range in functionality from to performance profiling to data querying to biological methods:

extendr/mdl: performant reimagining of R model matrices, written in rust
simonpcouch/syrup: profile memory and CPU usage of parallel R code
simonpcouch/stopwatch: high precision timings using mocking
simonpcouch/anyflights: query nycflights13-like data for any recent year and US airport
simonpcouch/gbfs: query data on public bikes from hundreds of bikeshare programs
simonpcouch/carpentR: predicting lake algal blooms using plankton dynamics
rudeboybert/forestecology: methods for model fitting and assessment in forest ecology
simonpcouch/detectors: prediction data from GPT detectors
simonpcouch/readmission: hospital readmission data for patients with type 1 diabetes
simonpcouch/forested: forest attributes in Washington State

Keep up to date with what I'm up to on my website's blog as well as the tidyverse blog.

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