Hadley Wickham

Hadley Wickham
Hadley Wickham in 2015
Born	Hadley Alexander Wickham (1979-10-14) 14 October 1979 (age 44) Hamilton, New Zealand
Alma mater	University of Auckland (BSc, MSc) Iowa State University (PhD)
Known for	ggplot2[3] tidyverse R packages
Awards	COPSS Presidents' Award (2019) Fellow of the American Statistical Association (2015)
Scientific career
Fields	Data science Visualization Statistics[1]
Institutions	Posit PBC (former RStudio Inc.) University of Auckland Stanford University Rice University
Thesis	Practical tools for exploring data and models (2008)
Doctoral advisors	Dianne Cook Heike Hofmann[2]
Website	hadley.nz

Hadley Alexander Wickham (born 14 October 1979) is a New Zealand statistician known for his work on open-source software for the R statistical programming environment. He is the chief scientist at Posit PBC and an adjunct professor of statistics at the University of Auckland, Stanford University, and Rice University. His work includes the data visualisation system ggplot2 and the tidyverse, a collection of R packages for data science based on the concept of tidy data.