Hadley Wickham

Short description: Data scientist, developer of R software

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]

## Contents

* 1 Education and career
* 1.1 Honors and awards
* 2 Personal life
* 2.1 Publications
* 3 References
* 4 External links

## 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

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Wickham, Hadley (2011). "ggplot2". Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Computational Statistics 3 (2): 180–185. doi:10.1002/wics.147. ISSN 1939-5108.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 {{Google Scholar id}} template missing ID and not present in Wikidata.
3. ↑ "Washington Statistical Society October 2013 Newsletter". Washington Statistical Society. http://washstat.org/newsletters/wss1310.shtml.
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Hadley Wickham". http://hadley.nz/.
5. ↑ "60+ R resources to improve your data skills ( - Software )". News.idg.no. http://news.idg.no/cw/art.cfm?id=F66B12BB-D13E-94B0-DAA22F5AB01BEFE7.
6. ↑ "University of Auckland". https://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/people/hwic004.
7. ↑ "Hadley Wickham's Profile - Stanford Profiles". https://profiles.stanford.edu/hadley-wickham.
8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 "About - RStudio". http://www.rstudio.com/about/.
9. ↑ Kopf, Dan (2019-08-17). "What's next for the popular programming language R?" (in en). Quartz. https://qz.com/1661487/hadley-wickham-on-the-future-of-r-python-and-the-tidyverse/.
10. ↑ "The R-Files: Hadley Wickham". https://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2010/09/the-r-files-hadley-wickham.html.
11. ↑ Hyman, Rachel (2012). "Profile of Hadley Wickham, Data Scientist in Residence at Metamarkets". http://metamarkets.com/2012/profile-of-hadley-wickham-data-scientist-in-residence-at-metamarkets/.
12. ↑ Hadley Wickham at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
13. ↑ Wickham, Hadley Alexander (2008). Practical tools for exploring data and models. iastate.edu (PhD). Iowa State University. doi:10.31274/rtd-180813-16852. OCLC 247410260. ProQuest 194000416. Retrieved 2019-02-14.
14. ↑ "Top 100 R Packages for 2013 (Jan-May)!". R-statistics blog. 13 June 2013. http://www.r-statistics.com/2013/06/top-100-r-packages-for-2013-jan-may/.
15. ↑ "Welcome to the Tidyverse". Revolution Analytics. http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/09/tidyverse.html.
16. ↑ Wickham, Hadley (2014). "Tidy Data". Journal of Statistical Software 59 (10). doi:10.18637/jss.v059.i10.
17. ↑ "John Chambers Award Past winners". ASA Sections on Statistical Computing, Statistical Graphics. http://stat-computing.org/awards/jmc/winners.html.
18. ↑ "ASA names 62 fellows". https://www.amstat.org/newsroom/pressreleases/2015-ASANames62NewFellows.pdf.
19. ↑ "Kiwi wins prestigious international statistics award for his outstanding contributions to the profession". https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12254723.

## 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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