Ian Fellows

Dr. Ian Fellows is a professional statistician with research interests ranging over many sub-disciplines of statistics. His work in statistical visualization won the prestigious John Chambers Award in 2011, and in 2007-2008 his Texas Hold’em AI programs were ranked second in the world.

Applied data analysis is his passion. He is accustomed to providing insightful analysis and operationalizing these analyses in enterprise systems using a variety of programming languages and tools including R, Python, Java, MapReduce and Spark.


rstudio::conf 2019

Don’t let long running tasks hang your users Introducing ipc for Shiny

January 24, 2019

Long running tasks in Shiny are not cancelable and typically lock the user interface while running. This talk introduces the ipc package, which helps you build dynamic applications when...