Hadley Wickham

Hadley Wickham
Hadley Wickham in 2015
Born	Hadley Alexander Wickham (1979-10-14) 14 October 1979 (age 43) Hamilton, New Zealand
Alma mater	University of Auckland (BSc, MSc) Iowa State University (PhD)
Known for	ggplot2[1] tidyverse R packages
Scientific career
Thesis	Practical tools for exploring data and models (2008)
Website	hadley.nz

Hadley Alexander Wickham (born 14 October 1979) is a statistician from New Zealand and Chief Scientist at Posit, PBC (former RStudio Inc.)^[2][3][4][5] and an adjunct Professor of statistics at the University of Auckland,^[6] Stanford University,^[7] and Rice University.^[8] He is best known for his development of open-source software for the R statistical programming language for data visualisation, including ggplot2,^[1] and other tidyverse packages, which support a tidy data approach to data science.^[9][10][11]

Education and career

Wickham was born in Hamilton, New Zealand. He received a Bachelors degree in Human Biology and a masters degree in statistics at the University of Auckland in 1999–2004 and his PhD at Iowa State University in 2008 supervised by Di Cook and Heike Hofmann.^[12][13]

Wickham 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.^[8][14] Wickham's data analysis packages for R are collectively known as the tidyverse.^[15] According to Wickham's 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.^[16]

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.^[17] 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".^[18] 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".^[19]

Personal life

Wickham's sister Charlotte Wickham is also a statistician.^[4]

Publications

Wickhams publications^[2] include:

• Wickham, Hadley; Grolemund, Garrett (2017). R for Data Science : Import, Tidy, Transform, Visualize, and Model Data. Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-1491910399. OCLC 968213225. http://r4ds.had.co.nz/. 
• Wickham, Hadley (2015). R Packages. Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly Media, Inc. ISBN 978-1491910597. 
• Wickham, Hadley (2014). Advanced R. New York: Chapman & Hall/CRC The R Series. ISBN 978-1466586963. 
• Wickham, Hadley (2011). "The split-apply-combine strategy for data analysis". Journal of Statistical Software 40 (1): 1–29. doi:10.18637/jss.v040.i01. 
• Wickham, Hadley (2010). "A layered grammar of graphics". Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics 19 (1): 3–28. doi:10.1198/jcgs.2009.07098. 
• Wickham, Hadley (2010). "stringr: modern, consistent string processing". The R Journal 2 (2): 3–28. doi:10.32614/RJ-2010-012. 
• Wickham, Hadley (2009). ggplot2: Elegant Graphics for Data Analysis (Use R!). New York: Springer. ISBN 978-0387981406. ^[1]
• Wickham, Hadley (2007). "Reshaping data with the reshape package". Journal of Statistical Software 21 (12): 1–20. doi:10.18637/jss.v021.i12. 

References

External links

• On the web
  • twitter
  • github
• interviews
  • Interview by Datascience.LA at UseR! 2014
  • Interview by Yixuan Qiu (2013)
  • Interview by Models are
• talks
  • Speaker Hadley Wickham Strata 2014 - O'Reilly Conferences, February 11 - 13, 2014, Santa Clara, CA
  • Interview at Strata 2014 Illuminating and Wrong
  • Ihaka Lecture Series 2017: Expressing yourself with R

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