Hadley Wickham

Hadley Wickham
Residence United States
Fields
Alma mater Iowa State University, University of Auckland
Thesis practical tools for exploring data and models (2008)
Doctoral advisors
  • Di Cook
  • Heike Hoffman
Known for
  • R (programming language)#Packages
Notable awards

Hadley Wickham is a statistician from New Zealand who is currently Chief Scientist at RStudio[1][2] and an adjunct Assistant Professor of statistics at Rice University.[3] He is best known for his development of open-source statistical analysis software packages for R (programming language) that implement logics of data visualisation and data transformation. Wickham completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Auckland and his PhD at Iowa State University under the supervision of Di Cook and Heike Hoffman.[4] In 2006 he was awarded the John Chambers Award for Statistical Computing for his work developing tools for data reshaping and visualisation.[5]

He is a prominent and active member of the R user community and has developed several notable and widely used packages including ggplot2, plyr, dplyr, and reshape2.[3][6] For his pivotal contributions to statistical practice through innovative and pioneering research in statistical graphics and computing he was named a Fellow by the American Statistical Association in 2015.[7]

Bibliography

References

  1. "Washington Statistical Society October 2013 Newsletter". Washstat.org. Retrieved 2014-02-12.
  2. "60+ R resources to improve your data skills ( - Software )". News.idg.no. Retrieved 2014-02-12.
  3. 1 2 "About - RStudio". Retrieved 2014-08-13.
  4. "The R-Files: Hadley Wickham".
  5. "John Chambers Award Past winners". ASA Sections on Statistical Computing, Statistical Graphics,. Retrieved 2014-08-12.
  6. "Top 100 R Packages for 2013 (Jan-May)!". R-statistics blog. Retrieved 2014-08-12.
  7. "ASA names 62 fellows" (PDF). American Statistical Association. Retrieved 14 November 2015.

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