In this episode, Hilary and Roger talk about user testing for statistical methods, navigating the Hadleyverse, the crucial significance of rename(), and the secret reason for creating the podcast (hint: it rhymes with "bee"). Also, Roger erroneously claims that Bill Cleveland is way older than he actually is. Sorry Bill. In other news, we are finally on iTunes so you can subscribe from there directly if you want (just search for "Not So Standard Deviations"). Notes: Bill Cleveland's paper in Science, on graphical perception, published in 1985 (http://goo.gl/xtkSJy) TomFest (https://goo.gl/Sbtz0o)

Welcome to Episode 1! In this episode, Roger and Hilary talk about the origins of @RCatLadies, evidence-based data analysis, Roger's new book, The Art of Data Science, and whole Python vs. R thing.

Roger and Hilary figure out what to name the podcast. Also, Roger is really bad at making web sites.