THOMAS LIN PEDERSEN
Thomas Lin Pedersen is a former bioinformatician /computational biologist turned data scientist turned software engineer who focuses on improving researchers’ interactions with the data they produce. He’s part of the tidyverse team at RStudio where he focuses on improving the performance of graphic rendering in R as well as taking part in maintaining ggplot2 and related packages.
He creates generative art using some of the tools that he develops. He’s mainly on exploring the beauty of dynamic systems. For him, the sweet spot of generative art lies in creating a system that you know well enough to set it up for success but is so complex that you still get surprised when you see the result. The more he becomes familiar with a system he’s developed, the more it feels like a (slightly unpredictable) brush to paint with.
