Lou is a passionate advocate for data science software, and has had many years of experience in a variety of leadership roles in large and small software companies, including product marketing, product management, engineering and customer success. In his spare time, his interests include enjoying the Pacific Northwest outdoors, books, science advocacy, great food and theater.
February 8, 2022
Michael Lippis of The Outlook podcast interviewed RStudio's Lou Bajuk to discuss the relationship between data science and business intelligence tools.
November 17, 2021
A Joint Webinar with Solita, an RStudio Full Service Partner
November 2, 2021
RStudio is excited to announce the release of RStudio on Amazon SageMaker. Developed in collaboration with the Amazon SageMaker team, this release makes it easy for data scientists to use the full power of SageMaker for machine learning from their favorite data science workbench.
September 16, 2021
Three key attributes define Serious Data Science; open-source software, code-first development, and a centralized data science infrastructure. This approach has been successful at driving value and impact at hundreds of organizations. In this post, we will focus on the advantages of code-first data science.
July 15, 2021
We recently sat down with Art Steinmetz, former CEO of OppenheimerFunds, to get his unique perspective on the value and viability of code-first, open source data science for the enterprise.
June 15, 2021
Data science teams sometimes believe that they must standardize on R or Python for efficiency, at the cost of forcing individual data scientists to give up their preferred, most productive language. RStudio’s professional products provide the best single home for R and Python data science, so teams can optimize the impact their team has, not the language they use.
May 12, 2021
While you may already be a practitioner of code-first data science with R or Python, chances are you work within a larger organization with many analytic tools. In this post, we give you some advice on navigating this landscape, and convincing others in your organization of the value of code-first data science.
April 27, 2021
A modern enterprise needs code-first data science. Navigating this landscape, and convincing others in your organization of the value of open source data science, can be challenging.
March 18, 2021
In this post, we'll provide some insights from organizations who have used both types of tools and give some guidance about which you should use when.
March 11, 2021
Continuing our series on self-service BI tools and code-friendly, open source data science, in this post we dive into the strengths and challenges of the different approaches.
March 4, 2021
In many large organizations, Business Intelligence and Data Science teams compete for budget and mindshare. By focusing on how data science can both augment and complement BI tools such as Tableau and PowerBI, these teams can unite on their common goal: delivering data-driven insights for better decision making.
February 3, 2021
Many Data Science teams today are bilingual, leveraging both R and Python in their work. While both languages are tremendously powerful, teams frequently struggle to use them together.
January 19, 2021
In this blog post, I take a look back at some of the many announcements, product releases, etc. that RStudio did in 2020. It was an exciting year, despite the challenges that 2020 presented to everyone, and we were pleased to continue to support and deliver value to the R and Python data science community.
January 13, 2021
Over the past year, RStudio has invested in making our pro and open source offerings the best common home for both R- and Python-based Data Science. In this blog post, we explain why we support both Python and R, review these recent features, and encourage readers to attend our upcoming webinar.
December 2, 2020
As business and organizational needs expand, a centralized ecosystem such as the cloud is needed to securely store and access data, conduct analyses, and share results.
November 17, 2020
Michael Lippis of The Outlook podcast recently interviewed RStudio's Lou Bajuk to discuss open source data science, support for R and Python, and how leaders are getting value from data science.
November 12, 2020
Over the last few years, more companies have begun migrating their data science work to the cloud. As they do, they naturally want to bring along their favorite data science tools, including RStudio, R, and Python. In this blog post, we discuss the various ways RStudio products can be a part of that journey.
September 25, 2020
Read The Forrester Wave™: Notebook-Based Predictive Analytics and Machine Learning, Q3 2020 Report to learn why RStudio was named a Strong Performer by this independent research firm, and received the highest scores possible in the evaluation criteria of security, apps, open source and platform infrastructure.
August 5, 2020
RStudio is proud to announce the general availability of RStudio Cloud, its cloud-based platform for doing, teaching, and learning data science. WIth RStudio Cloud, there's nothing to configure and no dedicated hardware or installation required. Individual users, instructors, and students only need a browser.
July 15, 2020
No single platform meets all the analytic needs of every organization. To avoid productivity-sapping complexity and underutilized infrastructure, encourage Interoperability so that your data scientists can access everything they need from their native tools.
June 24, 2020
Delivering persistent value over the long haul from your data science team requires reusability, reproducibility, and up-to-date insights, built on a sustainable platform.
June 9, 2020
Data science teams struggle to deliver results quickly. Agile techniques such as rapid iteration and continuous collaboration with stakeholders can help overcome these challenges.
June 2, 2020
For Data Science to be applied, decision makers must trust and accept the insights. Your team needs the tools to find relevant insights, and to communicate these insights in a way that builds trust and understanding.
May 19, 2020
Driving lasting value in an organization with data science is critical but difficult. The truth is most projects fail. What’s the answer? Serious Data Science is credible, agile and durable.
January 22, 2020
In this webinar, you'll learn how to develop, collaborate, manage and share your data science work in R and Python.
December 17, 2019
We will briefly examine the debates over R vs. Python, and then share
