Hilary and Roger talk about the difficulties of separating data analysis from its context, and Feather, a new file format for storing tabular data. Also, Hilary and Roger respond to some listener questions and Hilary announces her new job. If you have questions you’d like us to answer, you can send them to [email protected] or tweet us at @NSSDeviations. Show notes: NSSD Patreon page (https://www.patreon.com/NSSDeviations) Feather git repository (https://github.com/wesm/feather/) Apache Arrow (https://arrow.apache.org) FlatBuffers (https://google.github.io/flatbuffers/) Roger’s blog post on feather (http://simplystatistics.org/2016/03/31/feather/) NausicaaDistribution (https://www.etsy.com/shop/NausicaaDistribution) New York R Conference (http://www.rstats.nyc) Every Frame a Painting (https://goo.gl/J2QAWK)