👋 Meet Karl Broman! 🇺🇸
Professor of Biostatistics & Medical Informatics at UW–Madison and applied statistician working on statistical genomics. He maintains {chromer} and {aRxiv}. Both packages provide programmatic access to APIs: Chromosome Counts Database and to the arXiv repository of electronic preprints for computer science, mathematics, physics, quantitative biology, quantitative finance & statistics.

🐘 @kbroman
💻 github.com/kbroman
🌐 kbroman.org
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👋 Meet Will Gearty! 🇺🇸

Paleobiologist, Software Engineer, and Open Scientist. Postdoctoral Researcher at Syracuse University and maintainer of {rredlist} for rOpenSci. The package provides access to the IUCN Red List API, which is a global list of threatened and endangered species.

Find Will at:
🌐 williamgearty.com
💻 github.com/willgearty
🔗 linkedin.com/in/willgearty

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👋 Meet Philippe Massicotte! 🇨🇦

Research Assistant and maintainer of {rnaturalearth}, {rnaturalearthdata}, and {gitignore} for rOpenSci. The first two packages facilitate mapping by providing world vector maps and data. {gitignore} helps you to create useful .gitignore files for your project.

Find Philippe at:
🐘 @philmassicotte
💻 github.com/PMassicotte
🔗 linkedin.com/in/philippe-massicotte-725214260

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#MaintainerMonth spotlight! Meet Francesca Palmeira

She is a biologist working on conservation conflicts and ecological modeling. Francesca participated on rOpenSci Champions Program, developing {pcir}, a package to calculate, compare, and visualize the Potential for Conflict Index among stakeholders.

Find her at:

🔗 in/francesca-palmeira-06393725a
💻 github.com/fblpalmeira
🌐 fblpalmeira.github.io

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👋 Meet Moritz Hennicke! 🇧🇪
PostDoc in Political Economy & Industrial Economics and maintainer of {nuts}, a package to convert european regional data with NUTS codes between versions.

Find Morits at:
🌐 hennicke.science
💻 github.com/AAoritz
🔗 linkedin.com/in/moritz-hennicke-65048533

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Meet Pao Corrales 🇦🇷 🇦🇺

Pao works as a Research Software Engineer to support research in climate and weather. She is an educator and maintains {agroclimatico}. This R package is a set of functions for calculating climate and hydrological indices and statistics from “tidy” data. It includes a function for graphing georeferenced results and cartographic information.

Find Pao at:
🌐 https://paocorrales.github.io/
💻 https://github.com/paocorrales
🐘 @paocorrales

👋 Meet Zhian Kamvar! 🇺🇸

Senior Software Engineer at Recast and maintainer of {tinkr} for rOpenSci. tinkr package cast (R)Markdown Files to XML and Back Again.

Find Zhian at:
🐘 hachyderm.io/@zkamvar
💻 github.com/zkamvar
🔗 linkedin.com/in/zkamvar

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#MaintainerMonth spotlight! Meet Andrea Gómez Vargas

Andrea is a sociologist and data analyst focused on population statistics and official data, developing R tools for the public sector. She is part of rOpenSci's Champions Program and maintains {ARcenso}. This R package is designed to democratize access to official data from Argentina’s National Population Censuses, produced by INDEC

Find Andrea at:
🌐 soyandrea.github.io
💻 github.com/SoyAndrea

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👋 Meet Victor Ordu! 🇳🇬🇺🇸

Medical Doctor and software developer. Participant of rOpenSci Champions Program and maintainer of {naijR}, an R package that contains a suite of functions that make it easier to deal with data and datasets about the country Nigeria and its constituent parts.

Find him at:
🌐 victorordu.wordpress.com
💻 github.com/BroVic
🔗 linkedin.com/in/victor-ordu-868a0b3

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👋 Meet Carolina Pradier 🇦🇷 🇨🇦

She researches gender inequalities in science through bibliometrics.
Maintainer of {eph}, Argentina's Permanent Household Survey Data and Manipulation Utilities. Carolina is a participant in the rOpenSci's Champions Program.

Find her at:
🌐 https://cpradier.netlify.app
🐙 https://github.com/caropradier

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