I had amazingly positive feedback from my presentation on “Empathy in Action” today at rstudio::conf in Austin. My main focus was emphasizing that most business users don’t want to learn to code. They just want to kick ass. And coding can be a means to that end.
While I’d like to think the response was because of my fantastic choice of GIFs illustrating what analysts do for a living:
Figure 1: Analyst in Action file
The real reason it was so memorable, however, was the wonderful custom images from Allison Horst. Alison’s sad and happy apps really stole the show!
Figure 2: A Sad Office
Figure 3: My Office
Thank you Allison for your cute/fun/awesome drawings! They helped make the story more fun to tell.
The slides from my presentation are here!