Ben Rhodes

Epi | Full-Stack Engineer

Ben is a resourceful full‑stack engineer with experience delivering web and API solutions. Fluent in R/Shiny for interactive dashboards and experienced in modern back‑end development, he designs clean RESTful interfaces and builds interactive data visualisations. At Epi he extends dashboards and data services while broadening into infrastructure – crafting Docker images and refining AWS / Azure CI/CD pipelines so deployments stay fast and dependable.

Workshop

Taking the plunge into Positron - an introduction and discussion of Posit's R & Python friendly Data Science IDE

Since its beta release in 2024, Positron - the latest Data Science IDE from Posit and the spiritual successor to RStudio, has taken the open source data science community by storm. The IDE combines the many well loved features of RStudio with the modern interface and functionality of VS Code, and provides support for both R and Python out-of-the box to improve data exploration, processing and code outputs. Join us for a discussion into the features Positron offers, explore if Positron is right for you, and let us show you how our team at Epi switched successfully from RStudio to Positron.