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Alex Gold
@alexkgold
Director of Solutions Engineering @posit_pbc; mostly #rstats + leadership, occasionally politics and handstands. (He/Him) Author, https://t.co/2Y5hJxH5Cy
Jul 9, 2022 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
If you're a #dataScientist working in #rstats, you've probably heard of #docker, but might not know why you'd care or how to get started...

Here's a thread summarizing my talk from #useR2022 from a few weeks ago, and a link to my free online book📕!

🧵 Docker is a general tool for packaging code with its dependencies.

So in the data science world, Docker is a tool for reproducibility + portability. Docker can make it easy to share your work with others, or to keep it safe for later.