Hadley Wickham
Chief scientist at Posit; creator of ggplot2 and the tidyverse for R.
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- Hadley Wickham is a New Zealand statistician who builds tools for data science in R.
- He is chief scientist at Posit (formerly RStudio), where he leads the tidyverse team, and created ggplot2, dplyr and the tidy data approach: each variable a column, each observation a row.
- His books, all free online, include R for Data Science, ggplot2, Advanced R and R Packages.
- He lives in Houston, Texas.
Key facts
- Current role
- Chief Scientist, Posit; leads the tidyverse team1
- Born
- 14 October 1979, Hamilton, New Zealand2
- Education
- BSc in human biology and MSc in statistics, University of Auckland; PhD, Iowa State University (2008)2
- Software
- ggplot2, dplyr, plyr, reshape2 and the rest of the tidyverse2
- Books
- R for Data Science (with Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel and Garrett Grolemund); ggplot2; Advanced R; R Packages (with Jenny Bryan)1
- Honors
- John Chambers Award (2006); Fellow of the American Statistical Association (2015); COPSS Presidents' Award (2019)2
- Academic
- Adjunct professor of statistics at the University of Auckland, Stanford and Rice2
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