Speeding Up Data Access in R with Apache Arrow by Wes McKinney and Dr. Neal Richardson. Visit https://rstats.ai/nyr/ to learn more. Wes McKinney Bio: Wes McKinney is an open source software developer focusing on data processing tools. He created the Python pandas project and has been a major contributor to many other OSS projects. He is a Member of the Apache Software Foundation and a project PMC member for Apache Arrow and Apache Parquet. He is the director of Ursa Labs, an not-for-profit development group focused on open source data science tools powered by Apache Arrow. Neal Richardson Bio: Currently Director of Engineering at Ursa Labs / RStudio. Previously led product and engineering at Crunch.io. Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley. Twitter: Wes https://twitter.com/wesmckinn Neal https://twitter.com/enpiar Presented at the 2020 R Conference | New York (August 15th, 2020)