Emil Hvitfeldt - I Did 'Advent of Code' and Here Is What I Learned

I Did 'Advent of Code' and Here Is What I Learned by Emil Hvitfeldt

Abstract: Many of us like puzzles. Wrestling with simple-to-understand questions, with trickly-to-find-solutions gives you a special type of bliss when you finally crack it. ""Advent of Code"" has been going for 7 years, challenging over 200,000 people with 25 days of action-packed programming puzzles. Participating in these events has taught me a lot about myself, my motivations, and my tool of choice, R.

This talk will pull back the curtain on a collective journey of learning. A series of elf-inspired tasks provides a challenge for all ages, skill levels, and languages. Tweeting, Slacking, and Discording with the extended R community, bringing people together to share, learn and send memes. A unique opportunity to learn something new; a different programming language, a new set of packages, or simply going as fast as possible to the horror of all style guides. I hope to introduce you to a unique learning experience that will bring you as much enjoyment as it has done for me.

Bio: Emil Hvitfeldt is a software engineer at RStudio. Part of the tidymodels team's effort to improve R's modeling capabilities. He maintains several packages within the realms of modeling, text analysis and, color palettes. Taught statistical machine learning as an adjunct professor at American University. He and Julia authored the book Supervised Machine Learning for Text Analysis in R.

Presented at the 2022 New York R Conference (June 9, 2022)