Hadley Wickham

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Hadley Wickham
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Awards
Scientific career
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ThesisPractical tools for exploring data and models (2008)
Doctoral advisors
Websitehadley.nz

Hadley Alexander Wickham (born 14 October 1979) is a

tidy data
.

Education and career

Wickham was born in

Di Cook and Heike Hofmann.[2][4] He is the chief scientist at Posit PBC (formerly RStudio PBC)[5] and an adjunct professor of statistics at the University of Auckland, Stanford University, and Rice University.[6][7][8]

Wickham is a prominent and active member of the

tidy data approach, each variable should be a column, each observation should be a row, and each type of observational unit should be a table.[11]

Honors and awards

In 2006 he was awarded the John Chambers Award for Statistical Computing for his work developing tools for data reshaping and visualisation.[12] Wickham was named a Fellow by the American Statistical Association in 2015 for "pivotal contributions to statistical practice through innovative and pioneering research in statistical graphics and computing".[13] Wickham was awarded the international COPSS Presidents' Award in 2019 for "influential work in statistical computing, visualisation, graphics, and data analysis" including "making statistical thinking and computing accessible to a large audience".[14]

Personal life

Wickham's sister Charlotte Wickham is also a statistician.[15]

Publications

Wickham's publications[1] include:

References

  1. ^ a b Hadley Wickham publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  2. ^ a b Hadley Wickham at the Mathematics Genealogy Project Edit this at Wikidata
  3. ^
    S2CID 247702774
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  4. . Retrieved 2019-02-14.
  5. ^ "Hadley Wickham". RStudio. Retrieved 2023-05-05.
  6. ^ "University of Auckland". Retrieved 2017-09-03.
  7. ^ "Hadley Wickham's Profile - Stanford Profiles". Retrieved 2017-09-03. [dead link]
  8. ^ a b "About - RStudio". Retrieved 2014-08-13.
  9. ^ "Top 100 R Packages for 2013 (Jan-May)!". R-statistics blog. 13 June 2013. Retrieved 2014-08-12.
  10. ^ "Welcome to the Tidyverse". Revolution Analytics. Retrieved 2016-09-21.
  11. .
  12. ^ "John Chambers Award Past winners". ASA Sections on Statistical Computing, Statistical Graphics. Archived from the original on 2017-07-31. Retrieved 2014-08-12.
  13. ^ "ASA names 62 fellows" (PDF). American Statistical Association. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 14 November 2015.
  14. ^ "Kiwi wins prestigious international statistics award for his outstanding contributions to the profession". Retrieved 1 August 2019.
  15. ^ "Hadley Wickham". hadley.nz.

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